Headlines Out Of Capitol’s JFK Album? • . MIDEM:
Big Meet For Publishers
Highest In ’66*
BobMorganTo
MGM, Atlantic Score
December 31, 1966
HeadMGMA&R
British Govt. White Paper Adds Pop Program
To BBC; Records Get 6 Hour Airing Each Day
OMMY ROE: AFTER ‘SWEET PEA,' HITS COME FASTER
Int’l Section
Begins Pg. 45
Where the soul-satisfying action is.
On COLUMBIA RECORDS^
High-voltage singles
getting intense
\ radio play.
\^^IVIy Ancestors’
\0brfiy Wilson """
That’s HowV
Strong My\
Love Is” \
4-43857 A Sire Production 1
Mattie Moultrie
If
i!
Cash
Cash Box
Vol. XXVIll-Number 24 December 31, 1966
(Publication Office)
1780 Broadway
New York, N. Y. 10019
(Phone: JUdson 6-2640)
CABLE ADDRESS: CASHBOX, N. Y.
JOE ORLECK Chairman of the Board
GEORGE ALBERT
President and Publisher
NORMAN ORLECK
Executive Vice President
MARTY OSTROW
Vice President
LEON SCHUSTER
Treasurer
IRV LICHTMAN
Editor in Chief
EDITORIAL
TOM McENTEE Associate Editor
RICK BOLSOM
ALLAN DALE
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
MIKE MARTUCCI
JERRY ORLECK
BERNIE BLAKE
Director of Advertising
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
STAN SOIFER
BILL STUPER
HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood
ED ADLUM
General Manager
COIN MACHINES & VENDING
JOEL VANCE, Assistant
LEE BROOKS, Chicago, III.
LISSA MORROW, Hollywood
ART DIRECTOR — WOODY HARDING
CIRCULATION — THERESA TORTOSA, Manager
CHICAGO
LEE BROOKS
29 E. Msdison St.,
Chicago 2. III.
(Phenol Financial 0-7272)
HOLLYWOOD
HARVEY GELLER
6290 Sunset Blvd.,
Hollywood 28, Cal.
(Phone: Hollywood 6-2129)
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
NEVILLE MARTEN
ENGLAND
NEVILLE MARTEN
Dorris Land
9a New Bond St.
London, W1, Eng.
Tol' Hyde Park 2868
ITALY
MARIOPANVINI ROSATI
Oallorla Pasaarella 2
Milan (Italy)
Tell 790990
GERMANY
MAL SONDOCK
Jetef Raps Strasse 1
Munich, Germany
Tel: 326410
HOLLAND
PAUL ACKET
ThereslastFOtt 59-65
The Hague
Tel: 838500
FRANCE
CHRISTOPHE IZARD
94, Rue Octavo Feulllet,
Paris XVI Tell 870-9368
BELGIUM
FRANS ROMEYNS
Paul Hymanslaan, 8,
•ruaaela 18, Tel: 71.57.61
SCANDINAVIA
SVEN G. WINQUIST
Kaggehelmavagen 49,
•toekholm-Enakede,
Sweden, Tel: 69-46 99
SPAIN
FEDERICO HALPERN
Sagasta 23,
Apartado 40^,
Madrid
Tell 257 0907—224 8600
AUSTRALIA
RON TUDOR
8 Francis St.,
Heathmont, Victoria
Tel: 87-6677
ARGENTINA
MIGUEL SMIRNOFF
Rafaela 3978,
Buenos Aires,
Tel: 69-1S38
BRAZIL
LUIS DE M. C. GUEDES
Rua Rego Freitas,
289—3*. andar
Sao Paulo, 8P
MEXICO
ENRIQUE ORTIZ
Insurgentes Sur 1970
Mexico 20, D. F.,
Tel: 24-68-67
CANADA
JOHN MURPHY
87 North Hilt SL
Port Arthur, Ontario
Tel: (807) 344 3526
JAPAN
Adv. Mgr.:
SHOICHI KUSANO
Editorial Mgr.:
MORIHIRO NAGATA
466 Hlgashl-Olxuml
N^rlmaku,
Tokyo
RATES 820 per year anywhere 1
**»• U. 8. A, Published weekly. Second class posta(
paid at Bristol, Conn. 06012. O.8.A.
Copj^ght O 1966 by The Cash Box Publishing Cc
Ino. ^ nghta reserved. -Copyright -under UnWers
Cepyright Convention.
LOOKING AHEAD
1966, in show business parlance,
will be a tough act to follow. The year,
as covered in an editorial here two
weeks ago, was good, great and fan-
tastic for labels of all musical shapes
and financial sizes. The end of a calen-
dar year and even Holiday revelry do
not grind to a halt the activities of rec-
ord companies, of course, but they are
convenient occasions for the Industry
to take-five and take stock of record
industry past, present and future.
Since we have already surveyed the
past, and present, we’ll concern our-
selves with the future — the year 1967,
that is. There Is little doubt that the
start of the New Year will continue to
be hey-days for pressing plants around
the country. Activity of pressing plants
has been the consistent evidence of-
fered by companies to indicate that
sales, especially LP product, are boom-
ing. Some of the industry's largest
disk operations have, in fact, noted
that their own overburdened pressing
facilities have necessitated courtesy
calls on other plants to fill orders for
product. This healthy state is even
more remarkable when one considers
that this Holiday Season has once
again failed to produce a strong Yule-
themed traffic builder. And with top-
line new material waiting in the wings
for release Jan. 1 or thereabouts, 1967
should benefit greatly from the mo-
mentum of the closing weeks of 1966,
As for that new product, it’s inter-
esting to note that many labels are
sending them off with great hulla-
balloo, particularly at special sales
conventions, which. In some cases, will
match those summertime conventions
that introduce product for the fall-
winter season.
i
The industry is also fortunate, as
our poll results will attest to, to have
so many strong acts who show every
indication that their popularity has
staying-power. While it would stifle the
industry to be without newcomers of
note, this powerhouse reserve from
1966’s showing can easily pick-up any j
slack that could develop In the recruit- 1
ment of catalog sounds.
The number of solid acts that came
along In 1966 points up, we feel, the
large age groupings to which they ap-
peal, and the best guarantee of sus- |
tained success Is to attract a good
cross section of the recording buying
public. This is a key reason why 1966
hit the spot, and why the coming year
should do likewise.
From our vantage point, 1967 looks
like a Happy New Year!
1
iJ
Cash Box TOP 100
DECEMBER 31, 1966
14
12
10
11
13
38
29
22
24
17
10
57
13
21
18
16
15
12/24 12/17
TM A BELIEVER
MONKEES-Colgems-1002 1
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
NEW VAUDEVILE BAND-
Fontana-1562 2
SNOOPY VS THE RED BARON
ROYAL GUARDSMEN-Laurie-3366 5
MELLOW YELLOW
DONOVAN-Epic- 10098 3
THAT'S LIFE
FRANK SINATRA-Reprise-531 7
GOOD VIBRATIONS
BEACH BOYS-Capil'ol-5676 4
SUGAR TOWN
NANCY SINATRA-Reprise-527 9
TELL IT LIKE IT IS
AARON NEVILLE-Parlow-101
COMING HOME SOLDIER
BOBBY VINTON-Epic-10090
A PLACE IN THE SUN
STEVIE WONDER-Tannla-54139
BORN FREE
ROGER WlLLIAMS-Kapp-767
(I KNOW) I'M LOSING YOU
THE TEMPTATIONS-Gordy-7057
DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON &
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
MITCH RYDER & DETROIT WHEELS-
New Voice“817 6
GOOD THING
PAUL REVERE & RAIDERS-
Columbia-43907 35
SINGLE GIRL
SANDY POSEY-MGM-13612
WORDS OF LOVE
MAMAS & PAPAS-Dunhill-4057
CRY
RONNIE DOVE-Diamond-214
MUSTANG SALLY
WILSON PlCKETT-Atlantic-2365
STANDING IN THE SHADOW OF
LOVE ^
FOUR TOPS-Motown-1 102
EAST WEST
HERMAN'S HERMITS-MGM-13639
TALK TALK
MUSIC MACHINE-Original Sound-61
1 NEED SOMEBODY
_? (QUESTJON MARKJ & MYSTERIANS
Cdmeo-441
MAME _
HERB ALPERT-A&M-823
TELL IT TO THE RAIN
4 SEASONS-Philips-40412
46
20 24
31 35
21 31
18 22
58
53
29
30
20
36
55
26
43
33
(I'M NOT YOUR) STEPPING STONE
MONKEES-Colgems-1002 25
I'VE PASSED THIS WAY BEFORE
JIMMY RUFFIN-Sour-32027 34
LADY GODIVA
PETER & GORDON-Capitol-5740 8
IT TEARS ME UP " '
-PERC^X SLEPGE-Atlantic-2358 15
TRY A^LtTTLE Tenderness
OTIS REDDINGrVoIt-141 - 39
YOU KEEP ME HANGIN*^ ON
' SU,PT?EMES-Moto^‘-Tl OT -g/ ' 16" ,
WHISPERS
JACKIE W I LSQN-Bnjnswick'-5S300 23
PANDORA'S GOLDEN HEEBIE :
JEEBIES ^
THE AS50aATI0N-VQlidnf-755.' ’ 26
STOP STOP STOP
HOLLIES-liYiperial-66214 , ~ 19
34
35
36
12/24 12/17
IT'S ONLY LOVE
TOMMY JAMES & SHONDELLS-
40
41
43
44
45
46
47
48
52
i 54
I
i
!
55
56
57
•
59
60
Roujette-471 0
27
27
HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME
AGO
YARDBIRDS-Epic-10094
HELP ME GIRL
37
40
ANIMALS-MGM-13636
GEORGY GIRL
43
51
SEEKERS-CQpitol-7556
NASHVILLE CATS
56
61
LOVIN' SPOONFUL-Kama Sutra-219
52
65
WE AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' YET
BLUES MAGOOS-Mercury-7622
I'VE GOT THE FEELIN'
51
68
NEIL DIAMOND-Bang-536
I'M READY FOR LOVE
MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS-
28
23
Gordy-7056
WHERE WILL THE WORDS
COME FROM
33
11
GARY LEWIS-Liberty-55933
KNOCK ON WOOD
53
64
EDDIE FLOYD-Stax-194
I'M THE ONE YOU NEED
32
33
MIRACLES-Tamla-54140
I'M YOUR PUPPET
30
25
JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY-Bell-648
1 (WHO HAVE NOTHING)
TERRY KNIGHT & PACK-
41
12
Lucky Eleven-230
1 FOOLED YOU THIS TIME
42
44
GENE CHANDLER-Checker-1 155
HELP ME GIRL
54
59
OUTSI DERS-Capitol-5759
COLOR MY WORLD
43
51
PET CLARK-Wamer Bros.-5882
GALLANT MEN
76
SENATOR DIRKSEN-CapitoI-5085
98.6
60
81
KEITH-Mercury-72639
61
67
THERE'S GOT TO BE A WORD
INNOCENCE-Kama Sutra-214
STAND BY ME
55
66
SPYDER TURNER-MGM-13617
68
73
YOU CAN BRING ME ALL YOUR
HEARTACHES
LOU RAWLS-Capitol-5790
A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
SIMON & GARFUNKEL-
49
47
Columbia-43873
RUN, RUN, LOOK & SEE
45
17
BRIAN HYLAND-Philips-4040
GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY
44
42
BAJA MARIMBA BAND-A&M-824
PAPA WAS TOO
62
63
JOE TEX-Dial-4051
GOODNIGHT MY LOVE
67
84
HAPPENINGS-B. T. Puppy-523
BAD MISUNDERSTANDING
66
70
CRITTERS-Kapp-793
64
69
HOW DO YOU CATCH A GIRL
SAM THE SHAM & PHARAOHS-
MGM-3649
86
—
14
•
ANOTHER NIGHT
DIONNE WARWICK-Scepter-12181
82
—
48
63
KARATE
EMPERORS-Mala-543
71
76
6
64
LET THE GOOD TIMES IN
DEAN MARTI N-Reprise-538
72
78
'l9
6S
THE GIRL THAT STOOD BESIDE ME
BOBBY DARIN-Atlantic-2365
70
74
66
BLUE AUTUMN
28
BOBBY GOLDSBORO-UA-50087
74
80
KNIGHT IN RUSTY ARMOUR
PETER & GORDON-Capitol-5808 —
69
70
•
72
74
•
76
77
78
80
81
82
83
85
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
100
100
12/24 12/17
HELLO HELLO i
SOPWITH CAMEL-Kama Sutra-217 95 97 ,i
GOING NOWHERE
LOS BRAVOS-Pre3S-60003 73 77 ,
MAMA ;
CHER-lmperial-66223 75 82 '
WACK WACK
YOUNG HOLT TRIO-Brunswick-55305 81 100 ll
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE i
POZO SECO SINGERS-Columbia-43927 78 85 i
YOU GOT ME HUMMIN' ,i
SAM & DAVE-Stax-204 83 98 ,,
ARE YOU LONELY FOR ME
FREDDIE SCOTT-Shout-207 78 85
MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS BY
BOB CREWE GENERATION- i'
DynoVoice-229 — — il
I'M GONNA MISS YOU J
ARTISTICS- Brunswick-5530 79 86 i
PUSHIN' TOO HARD
SEEDS-GNP-372 80 83
I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM '
(LAST NIGHT) '
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES-Reprise-532 85 88 ^
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME
TOM JONES-Parrot-40009 93 95 il
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
ROY ORBISON-MGM- 13634 88 90 a
WISH ME A RAINBOW ,
GUNTER KALLMANN-4 Cbrners-138 84 87 ,
KIND OF A DRAG u ; i
BUCKINGHAMS-USA-8968 89 — *
JUST ONE SMILE f
GENE PITNEY-Musicor-12-]9 _ 91 99
HEY LEROY, YOUR MAMA'S - i
.'■-L- VA'lFiOl'sjJ I
87
96 —
90
100
96
919-4
CALLING YOU
JIMMY CASTOR-SmaslV-2069 ' ' ^
IF YOU GO AWAY " "
DAMITA JO‘Epic-5-:]0061
IT'S NOW WINTER'S DAY
TOMMY ROE-ABC- 10888
PRETTY BALLERINA
LEFT BANKE-Smash-2074
I DIG GIRLS
J. J. JACKSON-Calla-125
DEAD END STREET
KINKS-Reprise^540
BABY WHAT I MEAN
DRIFTERS-Atlantic-2366
GRIZZLY BEAR
YOUNGBLOODS-RCA-901 5
LOOK AT GRANNY^RUN RUN
HOWARD TATE-Veti/e-l 0464 -.r 100
SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
BOOTS RANDOLPH-MonLlment-976 94^
LOVE ME
BOBBY HEBB-Philips-40421 —
TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHII,E
-- PATTI LaBEtLE & THE BLUEBEttES^. '
' Atlantic-2373 - . ' ^
MERCY, MERCY, MER^Y
CANNONBALL' ADDERLY- :
CapitoJ-5798 : . , jJiij ■.Val I
LITTLE BLACK EGG
NIGHTCRAWLERS-Kdfjipj709 .
OH YEAH! :--j -w-ine!”'
JOE CUBA-i^XTET-TiGO-J490
WALK
2 OF CLUBS-Fraternity-975
THE PARTY , , , , ,
. -HECTOR RIVERA-Barry.-lQi,<)''' ' ‘ At
CONSTANT RAIN"
SERGICT 'MENDES-A&M-825 s '-='2L.
WALK WITH FAITH IN YOUR ,
HEART^--
' , BACHE-LORS-London-20018-v?r=i'T;afv,f:i ^
91
33
100 —
99 —
ALPHABETIZED TOP 100 (INCLUDING PUBLISHERS AND LICENSEES)
A Hazy Shade Of Winfer (Charing Cross BMI) . 55
A Place In The Sun (Molown BMI) 10
Another Night' (Blue Sear, Jac ASCAP)- ...... 62
Are' You Lonely For Me (Web IV| .......... . 74
At The Party .(Twin BMI) 100
Baby-Whot I Mean (Unart BMI) 90"-
Ba'd Misunderstanding (Kama Sutra Music BMI) ..''60
Blue Autumn (Una^^ BMI) . 66
Born Free (Screen Gems, (j^umbfo BMI) ......... 11
Color My World (Northern ASCAP) 49
(coming- Home Sbldier- IFeather 'BMl) . . 9
Corrimunication Sredlcdown ' (Acuff, Rose BMI) . >. . . 80
Constant Rain_(Peer lnt‘1 BMI) 100
Cry;(Shapirp Bernstptn'XSCAP) 4 a'. ... .‘,..!.17
Dej^d End Street (Mondvies, Noma BM.l} 89 .
p^iyVhh Ar-^lue Bress^l-^obele, Venice fiM^ *1'3 ‘
Eas^ West (Man Ken BMfj .1... ^20
Gallant Men {Chappell ASCAP) .50
G^gy GJrl (Chappell ASCAP) \ 37
Ghost Riders In The Sky (Morris ASCAP) 57
Girl That Stood Beside Me (Chardon BMI) 65
Going Nowhere (April ASCAP) 69
Good Thing (Daywin BMI) 14
Good Vibrations (Sea Of Tunes BMI) 6
Goodnight My Love (Captain Marble BMI) 59
Green Green -Gross- Of-Home JTree BMI) , 79
Grizzl/^Bear (Whitfield BMI)^ . .91
Hoppenings Ten Years Time Ago (Yardbirds,
Leo Feist ASCAP) 35
Hello, Hello (Great Honesty BMI) 68
Help Me Girl (Helios BMI) 36, 48
Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You (Bozort BMI) 84
How Do You Catch A Girl (Fred Rose BMI) 61
1 (Who Have Nothing) (Milky Way Trio, Cotillion
- BMI) 46
I Dig Girls (Meager BM!) 88
1 Fooled You This Time (Cochond, Golinee BMI) 47
1 Had Too Much To Dream (Lost Nigh!) (4 Star
BMI) 78
I Need Somebody (Cameo Parkway BMI) 22
If You Go Away (E. B. Marks BMI) 85
I'm A Believer (Screen Gems, Columbia BMI) .... 1
I'm Gonna- Miss You (Jalynne BMI) 76
(I Know) I’m Losing You (Jobete BMI) 12
I'm Ready For Love (Jobete BMI) 41
I'm The One You Need (Jobete BMI) 44
I'm Your Puppet (Fame BMI) 45
It Tears Me Up (Fame BMI) 28
It’s Now Winter’s Day (Low Twi BMI) 86
It's Only Love (Tender Tunes BMI) 34
I've Got The Feelin’ (Jalynne BMI) 40
I’ve Passed This Way Before (Jobete BMI) 26
Just One Smile (January BMI) 83
Xorate (Wilson BMI) 63
Kind Of A Drag (Galileo BMI) 82
Knight In Rusty Armour (Barricade ASCAP) 67
Knock On Wood (East BMI) 43
Lady Godtvo (Regent BM!) 27
Let The Good Times In (Smooth BMI) 64
Litttle Black Egg (Alison ASCAP) 97
Look At Granny Run Run (Ragmor, Rumbalero BMI) 92
Look What You’ve Done (Pocketful Of Tunes,
Noma BMI) 72
Love Me (Act IN, Downstairs BMI) 94
Mama (Chris Marc-Cotillion BMI) 70
Marne (E. H. Morris ASCAP) 23
Mellow Yellow (Donovan Ltd. BMI) 4
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Zawinul BMI) 96
Music To Watch Girls By (SCP ASCAP) 75
Mustang Sally (Fourteenth Hour BMI) 18
Nashville Cats (Faithful Virtue BMI) 38
98.6 (Screen Gems, Columbia BMI) 51
Oh Yeah (Cordon BMI) 98
Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies (Beechood BMI) 32;
Papa Was Too (Tree BMI) , 58
Pretty Ballerina (Lazy Day ^Ml) ..-'87
Pushin' Too Hard (Neil, Seeds BMI) ...7^
Run, Run, Look & See (Little Darlin*, Low Twi
BMI) 56
Shadow Of Your Smile (Miller ASCAP) 93
Single Girl (Combine BM!) 15.
Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron (Fuller, SanphiU. - .-f-
Windsong BMI) 3
^ ™ ^ ^
Stand By Me (Progressive BMH 1 53 ji
''Standing In The Shadow Of Ldve^- (Jobete BMI) .. 19
Stepping Stone (Screen Gems, Columbia BMI) .... 25
Stop Stop Stop (Maribus BMU 33 ,\
Sugar Town (Criterion BMI) ..i 7
Take Me For A Little;. Wh'lp ti-oUtpop BMI)
Talk Talk (Thrush BMI) ' 21 IJ
Tell it Like It Is (Orlop BMI) 8
Tell It To The Rain (Saturday, Seasons 4 BMI) .. 24
That's, Life (4 Star TV BMI) ;-.i. .1. 5 j!
There's Got To Be A “Word (KamoiSufra Music - 1,
BMI) 52
Try, A Little Tenderness (Campbell, Connell, il
Wack Wack (Yo Yo BMlj ' 71
Walk Tall (Miller ASCAP) . .VT. . 99
Walk With Faith In Your Heart (Tee Pee AstApj 1 00
We Ain't Got Nothin’ Yet (Anangd, Rdnga BMI) . 39
Where Will The Words Cdme From (Vivd''fiMl)''i . . 42 ^
Whispers . (Jalynne, BRC BMI) > v . i-i. 31 lij
Winchester: Cathedral (Southern. ASCAPlj!5r,,*»,.v. ... 2
Vi^isfi Me A Rainbow (Famous ASCAP| 81 I*’
-Words Of Love (Trousdale- B^^); .j ^ , T6 |J
You Can Bring Me AM Your Heartaches (Raw tou ji
, BMI) . K’. ; . .'-.v,; , .V.^' Uv 54 ^
'YoU Got Me Hummln* (Pfan#6*EasF BMi) /. . . U . . 73
You Keep Me Hanglrtg; On '{Jobete BMl) '30 d
COMPILES PROM LEADtNG RETAIL OUTLETS— DOES NOT INCLUDE AIRPLAY REPORTS • MAW UrWAM MOV!
r
40009
^ DC/^ADr\e
R€CORDS
division of
RECORDS
division of
RECORDS
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
5
II
N1
lis
King is the Man to Watch!
NOWAVAILABLE-
“MDSIC TO WATCH GIRLS BY”
LPM/LSP'3773
Al^^int®Hirt's new album features the
hit song, composed, arranged and
conducted by Sid Ramin, plus 10 more swingers
with the happy Hirt sound.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
U. 5, Musk Boom Still Booming
NEW YORK — The U.S. continues to
listen-along, sing-along, play-along at
a tremendous pace, reports the 13th
annual survey by BMI, “Concert
Music USA, 1967.”
As for disks, record sales are the
fastest growing segment of personal
music purchases, rising from .062%
to .184% of personal consumption.
Purchases of album sales hit $598
million in 1965. The personal con-
sumption figures do not include pur-
chases of phonos or radios, nor ad-
missions to musical events, but only
purchases of records, sheet music,
musical instruments and accesories.
During the past two decades, the
music industry’s percentage of annual
personal consumption expenditures
nearly doubled.
According to the American Sym-
phony Orchestra League, Americans
support 1,385 symphony orchestras —
more than half the world’s total.
Quoting Opera News, “Concert
Music USA, 1967” points out that
Americans attended 4,777 perform-
ances of 295 works given by 752
opera-producing groups.
Using statistics compiled by the
American Music Conference, the story
of music education is highlighted by
reports of 65,500 musical groups —
orchestras, bands and “stage” bands
—in schools across the country. The
figure does not include the numerous
ensemble, folk and chamber music
groups found in many schools, or the
many combos formed by young people
on their own initiative.
The 492 orchestras reporting their
1965-66 programs to the annual BMI/
ASOL Survey performed works by 573
20th-century composers out of this 783
whose works were played. A total of
6,720 performances of 20th-century
works was given by these groups, and
three times as many 20th-century
composers were performed by these
orchestras, with theii’ works provid-
ing one-third of all performances.
Dui’ing 1965, Americans spent a
staggering $598,000,000 on LP’s, with
concert music accounting for about
15% of that arnount. The choice of
recorded music is vast and continues
to grow. The Schwann Long Playing
Record Catalog for November, 1966,
listed music issued on 559 labels.
About 39,300,000 American devoted
some of their leisure time to making
music. In 1939, there were only
14,300,000 amateur musicians and
19.000. 000 as recently as 1950. In
1965, Americans spent about $900,-
000,000 on instruments, accessories
and sheet music.
The piano, with 22,700,000 players
is still the favorite instrument, ac-
cording to American Music Conference
figures. Guitar ranks second with
9.000. 000 players. Rounding out the
top 10 favorite instruments were the
organ (4,000,000), woodwinds (3,700,-
000), brass instruments (3,500,000),
“C” melody fiute (2,200,000), stringed
instruments (2,000,000), accordion
(1,100,000), drums and ukulele (1,000,-
(Continued on page 36B)
Capitol's JFK 'Probe' Packi^ May
Add More Fuel To Great Controversy
NEW YORK — A Capitol album cover-
mg the assassination of President
Kennedy is expected to make several
revelations that will grab nation-wide
headlines.
The LP, “The Controversy,” is
being rushed by the label for release
on Jan. 6, as part of its new Probe
documentary series. Cash Box ex-
clusively made known the production
of the LP in the issue of Dec. 3.
Actually, Capitol decided to market
the set several weeks before orig-
inally planned. This was done in view
of the now settled litigation by the
President’s widow, Jacqueline Kenne-
dy, initiated to stop the publication
of William Manchester’s, “Death of
a President.” A serialized version of
FF^ONT COVER:
Tommy Roe began 1966 with an
ABC waxing called “Sweet Pea,” and
— talk of unhurried hits! — the date
reached its peak, number 9 on the
Cash Box Top 100 on Aug. 6. This
was not to be pattern for future
dates since his follow-up, “Hooray
for Hazel,” and current side, “It’s
Now a Winter’s Day,” got quicker
chart reaction. Tommy, who is a
regular on the “Where the Action Is”
IV series, is now on a domestic tour.
+ Tommy will be released
convention in Holly-
wood, Fla. next month.
Beach Boys Form Label
HOLLYWOOD — The Beach Boys have
formed their own record company.
Brother Records. Based out of a yet-
to-be-announced Hollywood office, the
company is in the process of estab-
lishing an artist and exec roster,
according to Brian Wilson, producer
of BB sessions and writer of their
hits. Wilson will be exec producer of
the label. He serves as a Beach Boy
at the group’s Capitol recording ses-
sions, but does not make the road
with the team, which also consists
of Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and
Mike Love. A1 Jardine and Bruce
Johnston appear with the BB’s on
tour.
Brian Wilson also noted that the
new company is presently negotiating
distribution agreements with a U.S.
and foreign labels.
It’s understood that the BB’s pact
with Capitol has two more years to
run. There was no indication last
week as to what the formation of
Brother Records could mean in the
team’s future relationship with Capi-
tol.
AF Oswald Interyiew
NEW YORK — Audio Fidelity Records
is releasing an LP called “Lee Harvey
Oswald Speaks.” Oswald, termed the
killer of President Kennedy by the
Warren Commission, heard in a radio
interview made Aug. 13, 1963 by a
New Orleans radio station. Oswald is
interviewed as he stands on a street-
comer passing out literature for the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of
which he was a member. The tapes
were brought to the attention of AF
through Aubrey Mayhew, who runs
AF’s country label. Little Darlin’.
the now famous book is ready to start
in the Jan. 10 issue of Look Magazine.
Capitol, of the belief that the LP
vdll be of “extraordinary national
significance,” will preview the sec at
a press conference to be held Tues-
day, Jan. 3, at the Americana Hotel
in New York.
Alan Livingston, president of Capi-
tol, who will preside at the press con-
ference, noted last week that the LP
contains a number of “news firsts”
not previously presented via other
communications media. This includes
an interview with Jack Ruby, the
killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, named
by the Warren Commission as the
lone murderer of the late President,
and Oswald himself. There are also
statements by eye-witnesses who sup-
port the “second assassin” theory;
critics and advocates of the Warren
report, and personal descriptions of
the assassination and its aftermath
by members of President Kennedy’s
motorcade.
Lawrence Schiller, who produced
the LP, traveled over 11,000 miles to
tape interviews with many different
participants in the tragic events of
Nov. 22, 1963. Schiller has produced
all Probe LP’s to date, including one
on LSD, the late comic Lenny Bruce
and an upcoming entry on homosexu-
ality, due for release at the end of
January.
MIDEM Shapes- Up As Publishers’ Bag
NEW YORK — With a month to go be-
fore the event takes place, MIDEM,
the International Record & Music
Publishing Market, is shaping up as a
meeting-ground for the world of
music publishing.
A listing of companies signed-up as
of Dee. 10 indicates that while a host
of top foreign labels will be present
at the 5-day confab in Cannes, France
(Jan. 30-Feb. 4), publishers are pen-
ciling in that period as a “must.”
As for American-based company in-
terest, this, too, reflects an event
catering to music publishing more
than any other segment of the busi-
ness. However, overall interest from
the American end of the music scene
is slight with only two major U.S.
labels, Columbia Records and Atlantic
Records, coming on their own behalf.
RCA Victor, for instance, has not an-
nounced plans to attend, although RCA
France and RCA Italiana will have
representation. Some small American
labels, such as GoGo Records, the
Grief-Garris company handled through
Epic Records, B-Atlas and Jody Rec-
ords and Mira Productions, have also
signed up.
From the music publishing end,
American participation includes A1
Gallico Music, Jewell Music, Regent
Music, Schroeder Music, Phil Specter’s
Spectarious Music and London Rec-
ords’ Burlington-Felsted operation.
Participation by Italian and Great
Britain music companies, both labels
and music publishers, is running ahead
of all other nations.
Clint Wade, American rep for
MIDEM, addressed a luncheon of the
International Record & Music Men’s
Club here last week (20), filling in
those attending on the event. Wade
runs a public relations firm at 360
East 55th St., this city.
Bob Morgan Tops MGM’s A&R Operations
INDEX
Album Plans 24
Album Reviews 34-35
Basic Album Inventory 3g
Coin Machine Section 52-62
Country Album Reviews 41
Country Music Section 41-44
Focus On Jazz 22
International Cover 45
International Section 45-51
Juke Box Ops Record (luide 57
Looking Ahead (Albums) 37
Looking Ahead (Singles) 12
New Chart Additions 18
Platter Spinner Patter ...!.!! 30
R&B Top 50 ' ’ ’ 28
Radio Active Chart !!!!!!!. 8
Record Ramblings 20
Singles Reviews ’ 14
Sure Shots ic
Talent On Stage !«
Top 100 Albums 37
Top 100 Labels 35
Upcoming Events 30
NEW YORK — Bob Morgan has joined
MGM Records as director of A&R
operators - exec producer. Morgan,
most recently head of Epic Records’
pop A&R, will head a program that
will realize a greater output of in-
ternally produced material designed to
build catalog product.
He’ll supervise concept and plan-
ning for all MGM/Verve artists and
be active in the acquisition of new
talent and masters. While he does not
intend to produce sessions right off
the bat, he told Cash Box, he will
eventually make specific albums with
MGM/Verve pactees. For the time be-
ing, he explained, he will seek to ob-
tain an “idea of the label’s current
internal A&R picture.” MGM’s A&R
roster includes Tom Wilson and Pete
Spargo in New York, Jim Vino in
Nashville and Jesse Kaye on the west
coast.
Morgan comes to MGM from eight
years of service with the Columbia
organization. For the past three
years, he has been responsible for all
popular product and A&R producers
with Epic.
In his tenure with Columbia and
Epic, Morgan was responsible for dis-
covering many name acts which he
recorded. They include the Dave Clark
Five, The Yardbirds, The Brothers
Four, The Clancy Brothers and 'Tom-
my Makem, Damita Jo and Enzo
Stuarti.
He produced all of the Bobby Vin-
ton Epic hits, including “Roses Are
Red” and “Mr. Lonely” and was re-
sponsible for the Brothers Four hit
of “Greenfields.” He also made singles
and albums by George Maharis, Jerry
Vale, Bobby Hackett, Jimmy Dean,
Cliff Richard, Damita Jo, Godfrey
Cambridge and Buddy Greco, among
others.
BRIGHT BEST IN '66
MGM/VERVE
NEW YORK — MGM Records con-
tinued a pattern of sales success with
returns on the first quarter of fiscal
’67 showing a 72% increase over the
same period last year, according to
Mort Nasatir, president. MGM and
its varied divisions have already given
the operation its best year in history
this year.
According to Nasatir, each of the
label’s product wings “contributed to
(Continued on page 32)
ATLANTIC
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
NEW YORK — According to the year
end report of Atlantic president
Ahmet Ertegun the company enjoyed
the greatest year in its history dur-
ing 1966. Sal eswere reported as be-
ing up 50 percent over 1965. Ertegun
also credited such producers as Jim
Stewart of Stax-Volt, Ollie McLaugh-
lin of Karen and Carla, Quin Ivy and
Rick Hall of Fame and Dial’s Buddy
Killen for contributing enormously to
the great year enjoyed by Atlantic-
Atco.
During ’66 the firm scored as one
of the hottest singles labels in the
business with nearly 50 chart items
(Continued on page 36B)
7
RADIO ACTIVE
CHARTS
Bobby Moore
rsY «!
VE AfiAIN
CHECKER 1156
Bo Diddley
OOH BABY
CHECKER 1158
Bobby McClure
CHECKER 1152
Gene Chandler
I FOOLED
YOU
THIS TIME
CHECKER 1155
Andrea Davis
LONELY
GIRL
CHESS 1980
A survey of key radio stations in all important markets throughout the country to determine by percentage of those
reporting which releases are being add^ to station play lists this week for the first time and also the degree of con-
centration combining previous reports. Percentage figures on left indicate how many of the stations reporting this
week hove added the following titles to their play list for the first time. Percentage figures on right include Mai
from left plus the percentage title received in prior week or weeks. (SURVEY COMPLETED TO DECEMBER 21, 1966)
% OF STATIONS
ADDING TITLES TO
PROG. SCHED.
THIS WEEK
title artist label
TOTAL % OF
STATIONS TO HAVE
ADDED TITLES TO
PROG. SCHED.
TO DATE
47 %
Color My World — Petula Clark — Warner Bros.
92%
46% :
How Do You Catch A Girl — Sam The Sham — MGM
79%
45 %
Communication Breakdown — Roy Orbison — MGM
66%
44 % !
Music To Watch Girls By — Bob Crewe Generation — DynoVoice
44%
43%
1 Got To Go Back — McCoys — Bang
53%
42%
Knight In Rusty Armour — Peter & Gordon — Capitol
48%
41 %
Dead End Street — Kinks — Reprise
60%
40%
Kind Of A Drag — Buckinghams — USA
82%
39%
Green Green Grass Of Home — Tom Jones — Parrot
88%
38%
Another Night — Dionne Warwick — Scepter
92%
37%
Pretty Ballerina — Left Banke — Smash
61%
36%
It’s Now Winter’s Day — Tommy Roe — ABC
59%
35%
1 Had Too Much To Dream — Electric Prunes — Reprise
82%
34%
Gimme Some Lovin’ — Spencer Davis Groups— U. A.
54%
32%
Grizzly Bear — Youngbloods — RCA
47%
31 %
Hello, Hello Sopwith Camel — Kama Sutra
94%
30%
Love Me Bobby Hebb^— Philips
30%
28%
Full Measure — Lovin’ Spoonful — Kama Sutra
28%
27%
You Can Tell Me Goodbye — Casinos — Fraternity
27%
26%
Walk With Faith In Your Heart — Bachelors — London
31%
25%
Bittersweet — Robbs — Mercury
33%
24%
Wack Wack — Young Holt Trio— Brunswick
62%
22%
Baby What 1 Mean — Drifters — Atlantic
58%
21 %
Stand By Me — -Spyder Turner — MGM
66%
20%
Hard Lovin’ Loser — Judy Collins — Elektra
45%
19%
Wish Me A Rainbow — Gunter Kallmann — 4 Corners
76%
18%
Look What You’ve Done — -Pozo Seco Singers^— Colombia
80%
17%
That’s The Tune — Vogues — Co & Ce
24%
16%
Hey Leroy — Jimmy Castor — Smash
16%
15%
Constant Rain — Sergio Mendes — A&M
36%
14%
' Catch Me In The Meadow— Trade Winds — Kama Sutra
20%
13%
There Goes My Everything — Don Cherry — Monument
18%
12%
! Little Black Egg — ^Nightcrawlers — Kapp
17%
n %
Just One Smile^— Gene Pitney— Musicor
1
36%
LESS THAN 10% BUT MOIK THAN 5%
Total % To Date
Sweet Sounds Of Summer
Shangri Las (Dang)
26%
Love Me Longer
Vic Damone (RCA)
7%
Little White Lies
Motley Blues Band (Scepter)
6%
Walk Tall
2 Of Clubs (Fraternity)
8%
Midnight Hour
Kit & The Outlaws (Philips)
6%
Hard To Get Thing Called Love
Tony Bruno (UA)
5%
Don't Go Out Into The Rain
Seagulls (Columbia)
8%
Hurry Sundown
Peter, Paul & Mary (Warner Bros.)
6%
She Comes In Colors
Love (Elektra)
12%
Love Is After Me
Charlie Rich (Hi)
7%
Last Night
Georgia Fame (Imperial)
6%
I'm A Boy
The Who (Decco)
5%
't
8
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
The
last
big
hit
of
’66.
The
first
big
hit
of
’6T
PECCA@ 32078
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
lEWYEARWinMIiKNEWIlIRi!
PETE FOUNTAIN
Plays
BILL ANDERSON
Sings
^ORAI
65606
DECCAI© 32077
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
11
Mom.
"u+*-X!Tfrr4xnT/f'
LOOKING AHEAD
A compilation, in order of strength, of up and coming records showing signs of breaking into The Cosh Box Top 100. List is compiled from retail outlets.
1 i'VI GOT TO HAVE A REASON
® (Bfonston — 6A1/j
Dave Clark Five (Fpic 10114}
^ i'M GONNA MAKE YOU
^ LOVi ME
Dee Dee Warwick (Mercury 72638)
% WEDDING BELL BLUES
^ /Celestial — BMI)
Laura Nyro (Verve folkways 5024)
1 THERE'S SOMETHING ON
^ YOUR MIND
(Mercedes — 8M I }
Baby Ray (Imperial 66216)
5 SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU
IBonnyview — ASCAPj
Lou Christie (MGM 13623)
6 DAY TRIPPER
(Moclen — BMI)
Ramsey Lewis (Cadet 13477)
7 GIMME SOME LOVIN'
* (Essex— ASCAP)
Spencer Davis Group (UA 50I0S)
8 OH BABY
(ABC Music— BMI)
Bo Diddley (Checker 1158)
9 TINY BUBBLES
(Granite — ASCAPj
Don Ho (Reprise 507)
I A THE TRAMP
^Modern — BMI)
Lowell fulsom (Kent 456)
1 1 I GOT TO GO BACK
■ ' fWefa IV, Trio— BMI)
McCoys (Bang 538)
17 THAT'S THE TUNE
(TM-BMI)
Vogues (Co & Ce 242)
1 A LET'S FALL IN LOVE
■ ^ I'Bourne — ASCAPj
Peaches & Herb (Date 1623)
1 C SOUL SUPERMAN
® ^ (MUtbridge, Poiarh — BMI)
Hesitations (Kapp 790)
IT TAKES TWO
(Jobete — BMI)
Kim Weston & Marvin Gaye
(Tamla 54141)
17 HURRY SUNDOWN
' ' (Northern— ASCAP)
Peter, Paul & Mary (Warner Bros. 5883)
1 Q I LOVE MY DOG
* ” (Speclorious — BMI)
Cat Stevens (Deram 7501)
1 q I'M YOUR BREAD MAKER
' ' BABY
(Exceflorec, Jamil — BM/j
S/;m Harpo (Excetio 2282)
70 your EVER CHANGIN' MIND
(Gil— BMI)
Crispian St. Peters (Jamie 1328)
71 A GOOD LOVE
* * (Ragmar, Crenshaw — BMI)
Lorraine fllison (Warner Bros. 5879)
ALL
{B. 8. Marks — BMI)
James Darren (Warner Brothers 5874)
7*3 I'VE LOST MY HEART AGAIN
(Bourne— ASCAP)
Jerry Vale (Columbia 43895)
JA HARD LOVIN' LOSER
(Wilmark-BMI)
Judy Collins (Elektra 45610)
75 BEND IT
(Spectorious — BMI)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tick
(Fontana 1559)
|0 WHAT IS SOUL
* ^ /Pronto, fost — BMI)
Ben f. King (Atco 6454)
26
PLAIN JANE
(Crazy Cajun, Poker — BMI)
B. J. Thomas fScep#er 12179)
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
GROWN UP GAMES
/Screen Gems, Columbia — BM/j
Vic Dana (Dolton 326)
BACK IN THE SAME OLD BAG
AGAIN
(Don— BMI]
Bobby Bland (Duke 412)
WHAT MAKES IT HAPPEN
(Shapiro, Bernstein — ASCAPJ
Tony Bennett (Columbia 43954)
THE BEARS
(Preacher — BMI)
The Fastest Group Alive (Valiant 754)
CHILDREN OF ST. MONICA
/Let It Happen — BM/j
Don Grady (Canterbury 501)
YOUR EVER CHANGIN' MIND
(Gil— BMI)
TAKIN' THE BACK ROADS
(Tridon — BM/j
Trini Lopez (Reprise 536)
PEAK OF LOVE
/Chevis — BM/J
Bobby McClure (Checker 1152)
THAT'S LIFE
(4 Slars-BMIJ
96 TEARS
(Comeo Parkway — BM/J
Big Moybelle (Rojac 112)
FULL MEASURE
(Tailhlul Virtue — BM/J
Lovin' Spoonful (Kama Sutra 219)
NASTY
(Saturday — BM/J
Richard & The Young Lions
(Philips 40414)
SIT DOWN. I THINK I LOVE
YOU
/Screen Gems, Columbia — BM/J
Mojo Men (Reprise 539)
LOVE YOU so MUCH
New Colony Six
70 SOUL SISTER
•4^ (Chekaway — BMI)
Four Gents (HBR 509)
4Q LITTLE WHITE LIES
(Bregmon, Vocco, Conn — ASCAP)
Motley Blues Band (Scepter 12177)
41 WHY DO YOU WANT TO
^ ' HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE
/ Johnny R /vers — BM / j
Marvel ios (Loma 2061)
47 I'M GONNA MAKE YOU
love me
/Screen Gems, Co/umb/o — BM/j
Shadows Of Knight (Dunwich 141)
4'5 AIN'T NO SOUL IN THESE
OLE SHOES
IT M— BMI)
Major Lance (Okeh 7266)
44 YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY
**** YOU LOVE ME
(Miller— ASCAP)
Arthur Pysock (Verve 10470)
45 CATCH ME IN THE MEADOW
(Kama Sufra Music — BM/J
Trade Winds (Kama Sutra 214}
Afx I CAN'T PLEASE YOU
//ronhorn — BM/j
Jimmy Robbins (Jerhart 207)
47 SWEETEST ONE
(Polaris, Melbridge — BM/J
Metros (RCA Victor 47-8994}
40 GRITS AND CORN BREAD
/Pure Soul, Keyman — BM/j
Soul Runners (Mo Soul 101)
4Q THE HABIT OF LOVING YOU
(Leigh— ASCAP)
Nino Tempo & April Stevens
(White Whale 241)
5f| MIDNIGHT HOUR
(East, Cotillion— BMI)
Kit & Outlaws (Philips 40420)
NY-6F4-AC&R
American Cable & Radio System
An ITT Associate
FOR FAST SERVICE, PLEASE INDICATE ONE ROUTING HERE
SENDER
ITO BE BILLED) PEER-SOUTHERN, NEW YORK
TO SOUTH MUSIC "yjd
AMSTERDAM, AUCKLAND, BUENOS AIRES, BARCELONA, BOGOTA, HAMBURG
HOLLYWOOD, JOHANNESBURG, LONDON, MILAN, MONTREAL, NASHVILLE,
NEW YORK, PARIS, RIO DE JANEIRO, SYDNEY, STOCKHOLM, SANTIAGO,
VIENNA, ZURICH
HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS AND FELICITATIONS UNIQUE PUBLISHING
ACHIEVEMENTS WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL! MELLOW YELLOW! SUNSHINE
SUPERMAN! AND UP-COMING BLOCKBUSTERS INCLUDING MAS QUE NADA,
CONSTANT RAIN, LOVE MADE A FOOL OF YOU, SEMI DETACHED
SURBURBAN MR. JONES £ LOVE ME PLEASE LOVE ME, AS ALWAYS
MONIQUE PEER-MORRIS, PRES.
PEER-SOUTHERN ORGANIZATION
SEM8 THE AiOVE MESSA6E SUBJECT TO RULES AND REGULATIONS SET FORTH LN THE COMPANIES' TARIFF BOOK ON FILE WITH THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
TYPE OR WRITE PLAINLY WITHIN BORDER
THIS MESSAGE WILL BE SENT FULL RATE UNLESS SENDER DESIGNATES (LT) LETTER TELE-
GRAM SERVICE. THE LT DESIGNATION SHOULD BE PLACED BEFORE THE CABLE ADDRESS.
AC&R FACSIMILE SENDING BLANK
Via (211 Qmevica
Via Commercial
'Via Otohe"
Via Itlackag %idia
DATE
12/26/£.a
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
12
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
13
• best bet B+ very good B good C+ fair C mediocre
only those records best suited for commercial use are reviewed by Cash Box
■IlilllliilllH
Of the Week
BRING IT UP (2:45) [Dynatone, BMI — Brown, Jones]
JAMES BROWN & FAMOUS FLAMES (King 6071)
The innumerable followers of “Soul Brother No. 1” should come out
strong for this latest effort by Brown and his powerhouse group. The
side is tabbed “Bring It Up” and it’s a throbbing, soulfilled shouter
in the finest James Brown tradition. “B” side information was not avail-
able at press time.
OUR WINTER LOVE (2:17) [Cramart, BMI— Tubert, Cowell]
WARM (2:15) [Fisher, ASCAP — Krontes, Jacobson]
THE LETTERMEN (Capitol 5813)
All those lovers, of all ages, should have their hearts warmed with
this latest side from the Lettermen. The top lid is “Our Winter Love,”
as gentle a romancer as there is. The sweeping, string filled “Warm”
is more sounds in the same bag.
Newcomer Picks
GO WHERE YOU WANNA GO (2:15) [Trousdale, BMI— Philips]
TOO POOR TO DIE (2:27) [Rivers, BMI — Hutchison, Gordon]
THE 5th DIMENSION (Soul City 753)
The 5th Dimension (three guys and two girls) do this tune from the
Mamas and Papas catalog with a driving ferocity that should get it
spun and sold. “Go Where You Wanna Go” is the lid’s title and the pow-
erful harmonies and throbbing, engulfing ork backing makes this a
must play item. “Too Poor To Die,” is a solid, soulful affair.
THE DOLPHINS (3:51) [Third Story, Coconut Grove, BMI — Neil]
BADI-DA (3:00) [Third Story, Cocoanut Grove, BMI — Neal]
FRED NEIL (Capitol 5786))
The deep, melodic, rhythmic, blues feel of Fred Neil should spread
and wide based on this groovy outing titled “The Dolphins.” The tune
is a multi-paced, haunting, drawn out item with Neil giving a husky,
powerful reading to his winding lyric. “Badi-Da” is a real funky outing.
THE PLAYGROUND (3:00) [Gallico, BMI— Cooper, Catana]
WHAT’S ONE MORE TEAR (2:13) [Gallico, BMI— Cooper, Catana]
BARBARA COOPER (RCA Victor 9048)
New to the scene lark Barbara Cooper should have a click on her
hands with this haunting lid tabbed “The Playground.” The infectiously
arranged sound smoothly sweeps behind the songstress’ building reading
of the meaningful ditty. “What’s One More Tear” is an effective me-
dium-paced outing.
BALLAD OF WALTER WART (Brrriggett) (2:20)
[Guard, BMI— Smith]
THORNDIKE PICKLEDISH CHOIR (MTA 114)
This very cute ditty is a ballad concerning the life of a freaky frog
named Walter Wart. Delightful romp is likely to put the Thorndike
Pickledish Choir on the top. No information availavle on the flip at this
time.
Best Bets
NEW WAVE (Canterbury 503)
• WHERE DO WE GO FROM
HERE (2:25) [Handratoone,
BMI — Ander, King] Chamber music
background for thin, reedy vocal.
This offering is a novelty which
could catch on. A very interesting
item indeed.
(B-k) NOT FROM YOU (2:10)
[Handratoone, BMI — Ander,
King] Enchanted island effect pro-
duced by instrumental arrangement
Cool, clear vocal.
MIGHTY SAM (Amy 973)
I ® I’M A MAN (3:02) [Papa
i Don, Sunalee, BMI — Oldham,
j Penn, Hinton] Soulful, gentle R & B
I offering Soft, lilting melody could lift
I this one up the chart ladder.
^ (B-J-) GEORGIA PINES (2:37)
^ [Unart, Shu-fin, BMI — Buie,
f ..-L ikins] 'Wailing, mournful R & B lid.
P. J. PROBY (Liberty 55936)
• NIKI HOEKY (2:35) [Nova-
lene, BMI — P. Vegas, L.
Vegas, Ford] Thumping, rocking of-
fering with steady, insistent beat.
Heavy, swaying effect. Might find
popularity with a wide audience.
(B+) GOOD THINGS ARE COM-
ING MY WAY (2:20) [Met-
ric, BMI — Legault] Sinuous, winding
melody on this rock outing.
THE SATELLITES (Parrot 313)
• BODACIOUS (2:27) [Feather,
BMI — Gorlock, Gillis] Funky,
tub-thumping instrumental. Insinuat-
ing rhythm. May see a good deal of
sales action.
(B-K) EL SAN JUAN (1:50)
[Feather, BMI — Gorlock,
Gillis Mellow Latin instrumental.
iiiiil
TED FORD (Gaye 3034)
• HOLD ON TO THE KEY
(2:08) [Low-Budd, BMI —
Ford, Spears] Swinging R & B lid
with brassy arrangement backing
vocal. Could be a large hit.
(B-h) YOU DON’T LOVE ME
(2:40) [Low-Budd, BMI —
Ford, Spears] Blues-drenched R & B
workout. Mournful, soulful quality.
DEARLY BELOVED
• WAIT TILL THE MORN-
ING (1:59) [Knob Hill, BMI
—Walker] Breezy, easy-going rock
item. Persuasive beat, catchy melody.
Might be a solid chart contender.
(B-h) YOU AIN’T GONNA DO
WHAT YOU DID TO HIM
TO ME (1:50) [Knob Hill, BMI —
Freiser] Pounding, steady, medium-
paced rock effort.
JOLLY GREEN GIANTS
(Redcoat 101)
• BUSY BODY (2:04) [Low-
ery, BMI — Johnson] Fast-
moving, hard-driving rock outing.
Could score big with rock-oriented
teens. Frenetic rhythm suited to fran-
tic dancing.
(B-k) CAUGHT YOU REDHAND-
ED (2:17) [Pulsation, BMI —
Anderson] Shimmering, winding rock
effort.
VAL DOONICAN (Press 5008)
• WHAT WOULD I BE (2:25)
[Partita, BMI — Trent] Grace-
ful, sliding melody line. Lush string
arrangement backs up vocal. This
one could be a big winner.
(B-h) GENTLE MARY (2:37)
[Painted Desert, BMI — Sharp]
C & W-flavored lid. Strong, singable
melody.
THE JOHNNY MANN SINGERS
(Liberty 55938)
• A JOYFUL NOISE (2:34)
[Churchill, BMI — Brand,
Nassau] From the Broadway musical
“A Joyful Noise,” this effort is a
rousing, ringing song. Could hit big
with followers of the show and the
listening public in general.
(B-h) WHITHER THOU GOEST
(3:00) [Churchill, BMI —
Brand, Nassau] Tender love song
from the same show.
TOMMY FINCH (Cobra 1000)
• STREET WITHOUT JOY Pt.
1 (3:15) [Nacynbar, BMI — R.
Finch] This effort concerns the war in
Viet Nam. Paints a sad picture of war
scenes. This one might prove a top-
ical success.
(B-f) STREET WITHOUT JOY Pt.
2(3:18) [Nacynbar, BMI — R.
Finch] More of same over here.
VIKKI CARR (Liberty 55937)
• UNTIL TODAY (2:48)
[Churchill, BMI — Brand,
Nassau] Lyrical vocal from the Broad-
way musical “A Joyful Noise.” Could
ride on wave of popularity high up
on the charts.
(B-f) NOW I KNOW THE FEEL-
ING (2:27) [Duchess, BMI —
Barros, Spencer, Lyra] Slender,
breathless vocal from the same show.
KAREN SUE (United Artists 50088)
e WILD, WILD ROSES (2:33)
[United Artists, Pavanne,
ASCAP — Stanton, Psalidas, Badale]
Wailing, soulful rock outing with a
heavy, thumping beat. This deck
could very well see lots of chart
action.
(B-h) NOBODY LOVES A LOSER
(2:17) [United Artists, Pav-
anne, ASCAP — Badale, Simon] Sad,
slow-paced rock ballad with chirping
arrangement backing up the vocal.
THE CHARLES RANDOLPH
GREAN SOUNDE (Dot 16982)
• PETER AND THE WOLF
(2:00) [Sun- Vine, BMI] Rock
version of classical air. Melody
emerges intact and rhythm back-
ground adds spice to the effort. Might
be a very popular instrumental in-
deed.
(B-h) THEME FROM “STAR
TREK” (2:14) [Bruin, BMI—
Courage] Organ version of TV theme.
AESOPS FABLES (Atco 6453)
« HIDIN’ MY LOVE (3:15)
[Pronto, Lou Carl, BMI — Bot-
tari, Columbe] Slow, deliberate, care-
fully delivered vocal. The workout
could break out.
(B-f) I’VE GOT TROUBLES (2:35)
[Pronto, Lou Carl, BMI — -Bot-
tari] Jumping, rhythmic rock effort.
TERRY & THE TOPICS
(Coral 62509)
• JUST A GIGOLO (2:53)
[DeSylva Brown & Hender-
son, Alamo, ASCAP — Caesar, Casuc-
ci] Rock version of pop standard. In-
tense vocal blended with thumping in-
strumental arrangement. Might prove
to be a mover.
(B-f) WHERE’S MY PUSSYCAT
(2:33) [Champion, BMI — Mer-
lino] Shuffling, guitar-picking rock
outing.
mTrLENE DIETRICH
(Decca 32076)
• THIS WORLD OF OURS
(2:25) [Northern, ASCAP —
Debout, Colpet, Harrison] Husky, re-
ligious effort. Dietrich magic could
make this one happen. Keep an eye
on it.
(B-f) CANDLES GLOWING (2:36)
[Gil-A-Rex, BMI— Olias, Bad-
er, Harrison] Soft, slow Christmas
vocal.
SMALL FACES (RCA Victor 9055)
• MY MIND’S EYE (2:02)
[Miller, ASCAP — Marriott,
Lane] Lilting, infectious melody with
a fresh sound. This workout might
claim a strong foothold on the charts.
(B-f) I CAN’T DANCE WITH YOU
(3:15) [Leading, ASCAP —
Marriott, Lane] Tenacious, slinky rock
offering.
CHIP AND DAVE TRIO
(Decca 32073)
• WHO’S TO SAY (2:48)
[Summerwind, Champion, BMI
— Immer] Breezy, bright, melodic
rocker. Soft, fluid arrangement.
Might be a chart-climber. Watch this
one.
(B-f) EVERYBODY’S LAUGHING
(2:20) [Summerwind, Cham-
pion, BMI — Immer] Rollicking, frisky
rock lid.
MARTI SHANNON
(RCA Victor 9053)
• THERE’S LOVIN’ TO DO
(2:44) [Northern, BMI —
Keller] Frail, fragile vocal which has
style and verve. Could very well be
a chart item on the basis of its slid-
ing melodic effects.
(B-f) ON YOUR WAY (2:21)
[Faithful Virtue, BMI —
Harden] Will-o’-the-wisp quality
creates unique sound on this outing.
14
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
MOVING VP THE HIT LADDER
"JUST OME SMILE"
GEIME PITIMEY
NO. 60^ BEST SELLING ALBUM CHART CASH BOX
GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIMES
GENE PITNEY'S
GREATEST OF ALL HIS ALBUMS!
MM 2102— MS 3102
BEB HOT C&UI BlBUni
CEOBCE lOnES
“WE FOUND HEAVEN ON
EARTH RIGHT HERE AT
4033’’
NO. 3* G&W CHART BILLBOARD
MM 2106 — MS 3106
BIG R&B HIT
moymG om
INEZ & CHARLIE
FOXX
MUSICOR 1201
NO. 21 GAVIN R.B CHART
THE PLM ITEMS
SOtm SELLER
“I’LL BE HOME”
NO. 19 GAVIN R&B CHART
NO. 26 RECORD WORLD MM CHART
MUSICOR 121 i
SPANISH GOLD!
TOP FIVE
BEST SELLERS
LATIN ALBUM
IIECOR0 WORLD
TITO
RODRIGUEZ
EN ENCENARIO
MM 2107 -MS 3107
TIQUIJIQUI
ORQUESTA
BROADWAY
TOP i® BEST
SELLER
RECORD WORLD
MM 2093 -MS 3093
COMING UP STRONG! GEORGE JONES & MELBA MONTGOMERY
HIT ALBUM “CLOSE TOGETHER” HO. 34 BILLBOARD C^W CHART
UM ai09-MS 3109
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
15
flLENT ON STAGE
FOUR TOPS
CATHY CARR, CHARLIE BARNET
NEW 't¥0£K — Last week’s opening-
night at Basin Street East was a
truly diversified bill of fare. The top
of the bill was filled, and was surely
superbly filled, by Motown’s Four
Tops. The stylish quartet is a fine
representative of contemporary rec-
ords artists at their best. They sing
their hits and make them sound like
the records that you heard on the
radio. They sing- standards with a
fine practiced harmony and they work
on stage with a polish that bespeaks
long hours with a choreographer and
even longer hours of pure practice.
Not only however do the Tops enter-
tain you but they get the audience
to entertain itself, via handclapping,
singing and shouting. This is easy
enough at a college or teen concert,
but at a top flight, top price N.Y.
nitery it’s something else.
The entire body of Motown artists
have shown themselves to be practi-
tioners of the art of show business,
and the Four Tops are among the
best of the best.
After an extensive absence from
the club scene, lark Cathy Carr made
her comeback debut and brought fond
smiles to the faces of the throng. Her
while back smash record “Ivory
Tower’’ was remembered by one and
all and Cathy’s news of her returning
to the record as well as the club
scene was cheered. Her new act is
certainly pleasant, although, as with
any new enterprise, it needs to get
the corners smoothed over.
Charley Barnet and his big band
provided the musical backing and the
40ish sound was enjoyable as well as
nostalgic. Barnet has a solid group of
musicians gathered together for the
stay and their sound should be en-
joyed by young and old alike.
JOAN BAEZ
SURE
SHOTS
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
The Cosh Box "Sure Shots" highlight records which reports from retail dealers throughout the
nation indicate are already beginning to sell quantity or else give every indication of doing so
HELLO HELLO
SOPWITH CAMEL Kama Sutra 217
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME
TOM JONES Parrot 40009
KNIGHT IN RUSTY ARMOUR *
PETER & GORDON Copitol 5808
MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS BY *
BOB CREWE GENERATION DynoVoice 229
HEY LEROY, YOUR MAMA'S CALLING YOU
JIMMY CASTOR Smash 2069
PRETTY BALLERINA
LEFT BANKE Smash 2074
I DIG GIRLS
J. J. JACKSON Callo 125
DEAD END STREET
KINKS Reprise 540
BARBARA
HOLLYWOOD: A pair of silver lin-
ings to the dark clouds over Delano
were the two benefit concerts offered
here last week by Miss Baez under
the sponsorship of KRLA and Doug
Weston. With 4000 farm workers
— continuing their struggle on the
plains surrounding Delano, Calif,
(possibly the last great battleground
for unionization in our land), this ur-
ban folk laureate who sings of the
contradictions of peace and war, jus-
tice and injustice and God and coun-
try, filled the Santa Monica Civic au-
ditorium with warmth, beauty and
simple eloquence.
It was fitting that her opening song
should concern itself with the “Plane
Wreck at Los Gatos,” Woodie Guth-
rie’s polemic dedication to our mi-
grant farm hands (“is this the best
way we can raise our good orchards —
is this the best way we can grow our
good crops?”). Other tunes, part of
the contemporary folk scene but
steeped in the tradition of Ledbetter,
Robeson Hays and Seeger, included
Phil Oakes’ “There But For Fortune,”
NEW YORK — Before a devoted
throng of young admirers, Eric An-
derson, Vanguard recording artist,
backed by an electric bass guitar, a
piano, and drums, created his own
special brand of magic at the Cafe
Au Go Go last week (17). Singing a
group of folk songs, all but one of
which (“Come Back Baby,” by Dave
van Ronk) he wrote, the fei'tile song
writing ability of the artist was dra-
matically brought home to his audi-
ence.
The hauntingly beautiful melody,
“I Shall Go Unbounded,” was sung
early in the program. The very next
tune, however, “The Hustler,” pro-
duced the only false note of the eve-
ning. The delicate, fragile musical
texture of the song was invaded by
Dylan’s “All Over Now Baby Blue”
and “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and
an exquisite Donovan ballad (Miss
Baez could not recall its title). All
were presented with compelling con-
viction and classic purity. A warm-up
group called the Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band, six uninhibited boys utilizing-
washboards, banjos, aluminum tubs
and mandolins delighted the sell-out
crowd with a version of the kiddie
evei'green “Teddy Bear’s Picnic,” fus-
ing Blue Grass to Spike Jones. It’s
a highly visual act which bears
watching. But it’s questionable
whether they can be quite as spec-
tacular on disks.
In all. Miss Baez raised $17,500 for
the Delano farm workers at the Santa
Monica — more than double the figure
that Seeger managed a year ago here
with a single concert for the same
cause. Just a srimption of the funds
needed for what is expected to be a
protracted and costly conflict. But,
not unlike Miss Baez’ own Institute
for the Study of Non-Violence, it is —
at least — a beginning.
a harsh, strident drum-beat, which,
with its “hard rock” sound, was to-
tally out of place. The infernal drums
also detracted from the charm of the
lyrics of “Sixteen- Year Grudge,”
a whimsical tale of adolescent rebel-
lion.
Anderson, in addition to “Sixteen-
Year-Grudge,” performed three tunes
written since the release of his last
album: “I Ain’t Broken-Hearted,
Mama”; “It’s A Far Cry From
Heaven But A Short Cry From
Home”; and “Just A Little Some-
thing.”
The singer ended his regular pro-
gram with the rousing, rocking blues
effort, “That’s Alright, Mama.” The
crowd cheered madly and implored
Anderson to continue.
HOLLYWOOD — Every day somebody
or other is discovering Barbara Mc-
Nair. It has been going on for at
least nine years. One of these days
(or nights) it’s going to happen for
keeps. Soon (maybe not tomorrow but
soon, as the song goes) that elusive
unreachable star will be within her
orbit.
Based on opening night perform-
ance here at the Westside room at the
Century Plaza she deserves the ac-
colade that Mel Torme accorded her
several years back — “one of the
world’s all time feminine girl woman
female singers.” She is obviously a
woman and unquestionably a singer.
And she delights in exhibiting her fine
form in both spheres with at least
a dozen show stoppers in her 45 min-
ute stint. Opener (“Nothing Can Stop
i Me Now”) is the keynote address for
: an act which encompasses a number
: of off beat titles, special material and
! a smattering of standards offered en-
gagingly, intensely (but without the
Stanislavsky or “method school” ap-
i HOLLYWOOD — No matter how you
1 mis-spell it, the Young Gyants are a
' bantam sized group of youthful mu-
sicians with megalosaurian potential.
Fronted by reed man John d’Andrea,
this septet (two reed, two brass and
I three rhythm) manage to fuse the big
band sound of the forties convinc-
ingly to the neoteric roll of the ’60’s.
Refreshingly, the band doesn’t just
swing. It rocks. Tastefully, tunefully
and with integrity. Mostly to titles
McNAIR
proach utilized by a number of her
peers) and with electric assurance.
Over a year since she has per-
formed in her one time home town,
the act is almost all new. One high-
light is a series of sharp satirical
take-offs on Pearl Bailey (“Tired”),
Eartha Kitt (“Evil”), Jackie Mason ■
and Carol Channing (“Diamonds”).
And another is the Ron Miller rouser
“What A Day” from her recent “Here
I Am” LP. Of this Miss McNair .
fetchingly advises, “If you liked the '
song, it’s in my new Motown album.
If you weren’t too crazy about it, re-
member, there are eleven others.”
Closer “I Had A Ball” could easily
caption this revue. Comedian Bill Cos-
by, who intro’d her to the celebrity
packed assembly, said, “To know her
or to hear her is to love her.”
Credit conductor Coleridge Perkin-
son for excellent arrangements and
the Frankie Ortega orchestra for
sparking the sizzling act.
Show closes Jan. 1, which gives you
only about a week to fall in love.
which are current (“Monday Mon-
day”, “Alfie,” “Paperback Writer,”
“Boots Are Made For Walkin’ ”) with
several contemporary treatments of
more standard material (“Tangerine,”
“Primrose Lane” and “Slaughter On
10th Avenue”).
Opening at the Chez was pre-
ceded by richly deserved hoopla from
mentor Bob Marcucci and flack David
Mirisch with Dick Clark intro’ing the
band to a star packed audience.
Cameo-Parkway prexy A1 Rosenthaul
flew from Philly for the event (host-
ing a party for about 300 including ,
press, record distribs and personnel j
and celebs) with Gyants’ initial
Cameo-Parkway LP distributed to
first nighters. Response to show was
snontaneous — a standing ovation for
the newly organized combo.
Conceived by d’Andrea some
months back, youngster charted the
book and assembled studio musicians
for the album. Like the TJB and other
successful groups of recent vintage,
it was followed by organizing a live
replica for in-person appearances.
D’Andrea, who rather resembles TJB
leader Herb Alpert, is a handsome
as well as talented musician who, in
the past two years, has solo’d as a
singer on disks. He vocalizes here too
(occasionally joined by guitarist
Chuck Day and bassist Ron Brown)
exhibiting a fine jazz feel. But he
should borrow a track from Alpert
and work at developing more precise
and pointed patter between numbers.
We’re LONG
on
Se^iie
fe-yigjpLa ■
DearJaoX. the lot promptly
Many thanks „otif ioation as I '"as xn
my failPr® to s superb.
a hurry, ’iovr service P ^ Customer
TT
ERIC ANDERSON
THE YOUNG GYANTS
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
16
AF Hiked Domestic, Global Sales In ’66
illilUlllllllilllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllll^
NEW CHART
ADDITIONS
lllllilllllllliillllliiilllillllllllllllllllilllllliii
NEW TOP 100 SINGLES
*67— KNIGHT IN RUSTY ARMOUR
Peter & Gordon (Capitol 5808)
*75 — MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS BY
Bob Crewe Generation (DynoVoice 229)
*84— HEY LEROY, YOUR MAMA'S
CALLING YOU
Jimmy Castor (Smash 2069)
*87— PRETTY BALLERINA
Left Banke (Smash 2074)
*88 — 1 DIG GIRLS
J. J. Jackson (Calla 125)
*89— DEAD END STREET
Kinks (Reprise S40)
94— LOVE ME
Bobby Hebb (Philips 40421)
96 — MERCY, MERCY
Cannonball Adderly (Capitol 5798)
98— OH YEAH!
Joe Cuba Sextet (Tico 490)
100— AT THE PARTY
Hector Rivera (Barry 1010)
100 — CONSTANT RAIN
Sergio Mendes (A&M 825)
100— WALK WITH FAITH IN
YOUR HEART
Bachelors (London 20018)
NEW TOP 100 ALBUMS
*74 — RENAISSANCE
Association (Valiant VLM VLS 5004)
*86— MUSIC OF HAWAII
H”nry Mancini
(RCA Victor LPM LSP 3713)
*88 — 1 DO! 1 DO!
Original Broadway Cast
(RCA Victor LOC LSO 1128)
92 — ALFIE
Billy Vaughn (Dot DLP 3751 DIP 25751)
93— WISH ME A RAINBOW
Gunter Kallmann
(4 Corners SCL/SCS 4235)
94 — COLLECTIONS
Young Rascals (Atlantic M,S 8134)
97— BUDDY RICH: SWINGIN' NEW
BIG BAND
(Pacific Jazz PJ 101 13 ST 20113)
NEW TO TOP 50 IN R&B LOCATIONS
26 — ANOTHER NIGHT
Dionne Warwick (Szepter 12181)
39 — TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE
WHILE
Pattie LaBelle & The Bluebelles
(Atlantic 2373)
43— CROSS CUT SAW
Albert King (Stax 201)
46— COME BY HERE
Inez & Charlie Pox (Musicor 1201)
48 — EVERYBODY DANCE NOW
Soul City (Goodtime 801)
. - . . -
NEW YORK — Audio Fidelity and its
affiliated labels showed strong domes-
tic and foreign sales for 1966, Her-
man Gimbel, president, has reported
to his board of directors. Interim
reports by Alexander Grant & Co.,
accountants and auditors for the com-
pany, showed a domestic sales in-
crease of 30% over the comparable
period for 1965 and a 36% gain in
sales by Audio Fidelity Records’ for-
eign licensees. The Canadian opera-
tion reflected an increase of 22% over
last year. The labels include Karate,
Little Darlin,’ Audio Rarities and
Kinor.
Since Gimbel assumed control of
Audio Fidelity, the company has been
undergoing a vigorous expansion pio-
gram. Auffio Fidelity entered the pop
market with its Karate label which,
within a short period of time, enjoyed
its first hit single, “Juanita Banana”;
this was soon followed by the
“Juanita Banana” album. Since its
inception in the middle of 1966, the
Little Darlin’ label singles and LP
releases have appeared on the country
and western charts consistently. The
Audio Fidelity label itself added
Ken Lutfman Opens
Indie Promo Firm
NEW YORK — Ken Luttman Enter-
prises, an indie promo service, has
been formed. Luttman, a 15-year vet
in sales and promo, said he would ap-
proach this area with a limited num-
ber of accounts in order to give a
maximum of effort in obtaining air-
play and sales. He will contact major
radio stations and one-stops in the
New York, Philadelphia, Hartford
and Boston markets. He was national
promo manager for United Artists
Records and, for the past five years,
district singles promo manager for
Capitol Records. His firm operates out
of 20 Balmoral Crescent in White
Plains, New York.
^iiiiiiniiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiniininiininintiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiMMiitiiiiiiiiMim:
I ALL THAT I AM i
i ELVIS PRESLEY RCA VICTOR I
I Gladys Mosle, Ue. =
i SPINOUT i
i ELVIS PRESLEY RCA VICTOR =
I Gladys Mosle, Ine. =
i A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL i
= (MANHA DeCARNIVAL) 1
i JACK JONES KAPP I
I Ross Jongnlekel, Inc. i
i LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE 5
I POZO SECO SINGERS COLUMBIA |
I Noma Music, Inc. =
= Pocket Full of Tones S
= I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO I
= WITH MYSELF 1
i DIONNE WARWICK SCEPTER i
I Bslinda (Canada) Ltd./floartet Mosle, Int. =
= (WHEN SHE NEEDS GOOD LOVIN') i
= SHE COMES TO ME i
I THE CHICAGO LOOP DYNO VOICE =
I Tiger Music, inc. i
i BIG BLACK SMOKE I
I THE KINKS REPRISE!
E Noma Music, inc. =
I Mondvies Music, Inc. =
= DEAD END STREET I
I THE KINKS REPRISE!
E Noma Music, Inc. i
i Mondvies Music, Inc. E
E LET THE GOOD TIMES IN E
i DEAN MARTIN REPRISE 1
! Noma Music, Inc. E
= Smooth Music, Ine. E
E HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE I
I ELVIS PRESLEY RCA VICTOR i
- Elvis Presley Music, Inc. =
I ALL I SEE IS YOU I
i DUSTY SPRINGFIELD PHILIPS i
5 Anne-Raehel Music Corporation =
E YOU ARE SHE I
I CHAD & JEREMY COLUMBIA i
= Noma Music. Ine. =
i I WONT CRY I
I CHAD & JEREMY COLUMBIA =
i Noma Music. Ine. =
E ANOTHER TEAR FALLS i
I WALKER BROS. SMASH i
s Anne-Rachel Music Corporation =
I SADDEST NIGHT IN THE WORLD i
I WALKER BROS SMASH I
= BIgtop Records, Inc. =
i ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD i
I CONNIE FRANCIS MGM I
i Anne-Saehel Music Corporation =
1 SHE'U RETURN IT I
I ERIC BURDON & ANIMALS MGM i
E Slamlna Mosle, Ine. r
I THE RIGHT ONE IS LEFT I
I CILLA BLACK CAPITOL I
E Hill & Range Songs, Ine. §
I THE ABERBACH GROUP |
I 1619 Broadway, New Ytrli, N. V. |
HiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiJiniiiiiiiiiininiiiriiiL
about sixty new LP’s during the past
year. It released 15 new LP’s in its
classical line, including a deluxe
seven-record boxed set of the nine
Beethoven Symphonies, and a two-
record set of Beethoven’s 8th and 9th
Symphonies.
Gimbel also introduced exciting
new packaging concepts for many of
Audio Fidelity’s new albums which
were enthusiastically received by
Audio Fidelity’s distributors. Carl
Shaw, vice president of the company,
just returned from the west coast
after negotiating for a new jazz line,
details of which will be announced at
a later date.
Gimbel’s plans for 1967 are to con-
tinue the company’s expansion pro-
gram by acquiring new artists, new
repertoire and imaginative merchan-
dising.
Three New Artists
AF has inked three new artists,
Tony Tanner, who appeared in “Half
a Sixpence” and the movie version
of “Stop the World,” The Four Aces
and Vincent Lopez. They will appear
in LP’s due early next year.
Queen Elizabeth, Wilson
Praise Legacy's 'Kennedy'
NEW YORK — High praise for the
CBS Legacy Collection set, “John
Fitzgeralcl Kennedy ... As We Re-
member Him,” has come from Brit-
ain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prime
Minister Harold Wilson, who were re-
cently presented copies of the release.
Spokesmen indicated that the
! Queen had greatly enjoyed looking
j at the book and was eager to listen
I to the records. In a letter to Kenneth
i Glancy, managing director of CBS
■ Records, Ltd., in England, Prime
1 Minister Wilson commented on the
illustrated book and two-record set:
“I am extremely honored and pleased
to receive these and shall keep them
I with great pride with my own collec-
I tion.”
A biography of President Kennedy
I from childhood to the White House,
! “As We Remember Him” is the larg-
I est and most successful Legacy Col-
! lection publication ever released. The
j set contains two LP’s and a 241-page
book which features letters and docu-
i ments written by members of the
I Kennedy family and by close personal
friends and political associates of
! John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Much of
{ the recorded material was taped espe-
i dally for this set, and many of the
photographs contained in the book
, were previously unpublished.
The Queen and Pidme Minister
were also presented with copies of the
other eight CBS Legacy Collection
publications. These include “First
Performance — Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts, Philharmonic Hall,
September 23, 1962,” “The Badmen,”
“The Revolution,” “The Confeder-
acy,” “The Union,” “Mexico,” “The
Mormon Pioneers” and, most recently,
“The Irish Uprising/1916-1922.”
Atlantic Music Buys
Charlie Parker Tunes
NEW YORK — The Charles Parker
estate has sold its entire holdings of
24 Charlie Parker songs to Michael
H. Goldsen’s Atlantic Music Corpora-
tion. Catalog contains his instru-
mentals which have appeared on his
Verve recordings and are jazz classics
throughout the world.
These twenty-four songs are added
to Goldsen’s other six Charlie Parker
compositions which include such tunes
as “Moose The Mooche,” “Yardbird
Suite,” “Scrapple From The Apple,”
j “Dewey Square,” “Ornithology” and
j “Confirmation.”
j New recordings will be issued on
; the recently acquired compositions in
I addition to publishing a special folio
! edition.
HARM Names Committee To
PHILADELPHIA — The committee
for nominations for 1966 NARM
(rack-jobber) awards has been se-
lected, reports John Billinis, presi-
dent. This committee will be respon-
sible for submitting the nominees for
the 1966 NARM Awards. The final
voting on the awards is done by the
record merchandisers members of
NARM (rack jobbers). The awards
will be presented at the annual
NARM awards banquet, which will
be held Thursday evening, March 9,
in the Los Angeles Ballroom of the
Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles,
as the highlight of the social sched-
ule of the association’s ninth annual
convention. The Convention convenes
in Los Angeles on March 5.
Members of the committee which
will submit nominees for eighteen
categories in which awards will be
presented, are as follows: Ben Bartel
(Cal Raks, Los Angeles, California) ;
Pat Moreland (Record Service Com-
pany, Los Angeles, California) ; Lee
Steen (Recordwagon, Woburn,
Mass.) ; John T. Edgerton (Pic-A-
Tune, Emeryville, California) ; Stan-
ley Jaffe (Consolidated Distributors,
Seattle, Washington) ; Manuel
Swatez (J. L. Marsh Company, Min-
neapolis, Minnesota) ; George Souvall
(Arizona Sundries, Phoenix, Ari-
zona) ; Sam N. Morrison (Knox
Record Rack, Knoxville, Tennessee) ;
Larry M. Rosmarin (Record Dis-
tributing Company, Houston, Texas) ;
Jack Silverman (Major Record Serv-
ice, Des Moines, Iowa) ; Charles
Murray (Stark Record Service,
Select Awards Nominees
Cleveland, Ohio) ; Richard Stultz
(Record Supply (Ilompany, Orlando,
Florida) ; Fred Traub (Disco, Boston.
Mass.) ; Jay Jacobs (District Records,
Washington, D.C.) ; David Press (D
and H Distributing Company, Harris-
burg, Penna.) ; Harold Rietz (Record
City Record Racks, Milwaukee, Wis-
consin) ; Vic Faraci (Musical Isle
Record Corp., Chicago, Illinois) ;
Jack Grossman (Merco Enterprises,
Melville, New York); Jack Geldbart
(L and F Record Service, Atlanta,
Georgia) ; and Carl Glaser (Disceries,
Inc., Buffalo, New York).
The categories in which NARM
Awards will be presented include
Best-Selling Hit Single Record; Best
Selling Album; Best Selling Movie
Sound Track; Best Selling Comedy
Album; Best Selling Male Vocalist;
Best Selling Female Vocalist; Best
Selling Country and Western Artist;
Best Selling Folk Artist; Most
Promising Male Vocalist; Most Prom-
ising Female Vocalist; Best Selling
Vocal Group; Best Selling Instru-
mental Group ; Best Selling Orches-
tra; Best Selling Children’s Line;
and Best Selling Economy Product.
Upon finalization of the Awards
Ballot, when the selection committee
has prepared the choices which will
appear on the final ballot, the ballots
will be sent to the record merchan-
diser members of NARM, and will be
returned to an independent account-
ing firm, which will tabulate the re-
turns. No prior announcement of the
winners is made until the evening of
the Awards Banquet.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
18
» - *
¥
45
■g
m
*
m
m
sr:
5c«c
....
n
B
M
W^SSStsSs
Arthur
Prysock
When he sings the song,
it stays sung.
And when he sings
a hit like
You don't
have to
say you
love me
VK-10470
you know it's gonna
be a hit for
many charts to come!
From his album
ART & SOUL
V/ V6-5009
Verve Records is a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
RAMBLINGS
William Kermit Smith tells us that
the Velvet Underground & Nico will
work a l-week gig at Montreal’s
“EXrO-67,” from Jan. 16th to 23r(l.
During this stay they will tape an
Ed Sullivan TV'^’er. The group is also
scheduled for a 30-day European tour
to begin in mid-Mar. This tour will
be promoted by Giorgio Gomelsky.
Robert Wace, and William Kermit
Smith.
Steve Paul’s The Scene has booked
the Velvet Underground and Nico.
As an added attraction, Andy Warhol
will make a film in the West 46th St.
12th. The lark has been spending a lot
of time of late in Paris.
Debbie Lori Kaye, Columbia’s
young Canadian lark who made such
a big splash with Bob Hope at the
CNE, has been signed to a manage-
ment contract with Saul Holiflf, man-
ager of Johnny Cash and the Statler
Bros. She has just been booked to do
a Tommy Hunter Show with her first
exposure due early in 1967.
Vaughn Monroe opens at the Rain-
bow Grill, Dec. 26.
Joey Dee brings his new combo into
Trude Heller’s Village nitery Dec.
26th for a debut engagement of
HOLMES, McFADDEN DEBBIE LORI KAYE ERIC ANDERSON
& COMMANDERS
nitery at the same time. So, if you
want to be in pictures. . . . you
know where to go. Even if you don’t
particularly care to be immortalized
on celluloid, there’s a lot happening
at The Scene with groups like the
Young Rascals, the Youngbloods, and
the Free Spirits appearing weekly in
“dance/concerts.”
Carl Holmes and the Commanders
with Ruth McFadden, headliners at
Cheetah’s New York and Chicago
openings, begin a 2-week engage-
ment at Cheetah (53i'd and B’way)
Dec. 22nd through Wed.. Jan. 4th.
Sharing the Yuletide bill is Mike St.
Shaw, who is being held over for an
additional week.
Eric Anderson is set for an up-
coming concert at Town Hall.
Billy Meschel of Hugo & Luigi,
has noted that the David Garrick
deck on Piccadilly of “Dear Mrs.
Applebee’’ has been doing very well
in England. The tune is out in the
U.S. on the A&M label and was also
done by Flip Cartridge for the Par-
rott label.
“In My Life” the latest Judy Col-
lins LP is “sensational, it’s breaking
out all over; it’s going Folk, Pop,
Jazz, and Good Music,” according to
Elektra’s Steve Harris. Steve also
notes that Tom Paxton is soon to
make his Carnegie Hall debut.
Way up in Rochester, N.Yk, A1
Cecere has gotten 2 singers named
Timmy Chiles and Tony Pilitt^re.
Timmy will be coming into New
York during the Christmas week to
cut his first single “Lonelv Tears”
“Playmate.” Tony Pilittere’s deck is
“You Wouldn’t Believe Me”/“It’s Not
That Way.” Tony was formerly with
the Wee-Four on the Nu-Sound
label.
Australian born Lana Cantrell will
make her second appearance on the
Ed Sullivan TV’er, Jan. 1st. She is
scheduled for four such appearances
this season.
The Serendipity Singers are set for
a Jan. 29th-Feb 4th tour of 9 schools
in the Pennsylvania area. . . . the
Four Fifths (Columbia) are set for
Altman’s fashion show Dec. 28th.
Their current release is “If You Still
Love Me.”
Del Serino has announced the sign-
ing of the English Setters to Peer-
Southern. They are a self contained
umt and write their own material.
Hush Dallas and Sal Lacanta just
itopped by the Ramblings office.
Gale Garnett, who sang her way to
nr^TninsTice with “We’ll Sing In The
returns to New York after
- ’ Lw 1- .s'waj’' hiatus to co-star with
-A - ■■•er and Hal Buckley in the
■ ' ■ ---Ain Krasna comedy, “Love
i - P . ’.A , ’ scheduled to open Feb.
3-weeks Billed as the New Starliters,
Joey’s group will share the bandstand
with the Scoundrels and singer Bertha
Colbert.
The Reprise single of songs from
Irving Allen’s new Matt Helm ad-
venture. “Murderers’ Row,” sung by
Dean Martin, is being distributed to
music stores across the nation for
joint promotion with the Christmas
play-dates for the Columbia Pictures
release. The sides on the deck are:
“I’m Not The Marrying Kind” and
“Let The Good Times In.”
Ravi Shankar is in the U.S. for con-
certs. He was welcomed at a reception
at the Asia House Dec. 20. On the
21st, 22nd, and 23rd, he played com-
pletely different concerts at Philhar-
monic Hall. Shankar’s magnificent
work with the sitar has had a great
deal of influence on the modern day
pop music scene.
“All In Love”, the Jacques Urbont,
Bruce Geller musical version of
Sheridan’s “The Rivals”, was present-
ed by Equity Theater players from
December 2-18 at the Master Theater.
The production is published by E. B.
Marks.
HOLLYWOOD:
It’s not very often (if ever) that
the L. A. Times devotes a full page
to a new record label or dinner party.
But that it did to Chisa Records’ bash
last week at the former Leonard
Firestone estate. The firm (encom-
passing the talents of jazz trumpeter
Hugh Masekela, vocalist Letta and
groups such as the Zulus and Bwanas)
brought together more than 300 so
ciety, artist and musi''al luminaries
to the home of Don and Molly Chap-
pellet in Beverly Hills. This, for a
private concert which turned out to
be anything but private.
The L. A. Times headlined it “The
Party That Grew Until . . . ZOP!
Affair began when Chisa’s g.m. and
musical director Larry Spector was
invited to bring some of the new
label’s talents to the Chappellet's for
dinner and music. It \'^'as to have
been a rather simple affair — not more
than 30 — but word leaked out and
friends told friends — phones started
ringing — and ZOP! We encountered,
among many others, the Henry
Fondas, Peter Fonda, Anne Baxter,
Ted Feigan, Danny Davis, Bill Har-
bach, David Crosby, Brandon De
Wilde, Teri Thornton, Dinah Shore,
Larry Bell (he flew in from N.Y. for
the occasion) and Herbert Moss.
Highlight of the evening wms Mase-
kela (who has cut two albums for
MGM ) and his quartet who performed
in the living Chappellet room — a com-
bination of tribal African tunes, gos-
pel and rock wdth several recent chart
titles. His version of “It’s Not Un-
usual” is. If you haven’t already
chanced upon his name, start re-
hearsing it now. Chances are it could
soon be as household as TJB, Zen and
Sears-Roebuck.
Another party this past week — a
surprise one for Koppelman-Rubin’s
Johnny Bond who was scheduled to
leave for Philly this past Monday
Affair was held at Martoni’s with
many local jocks and west coast music
men attending. But most surprised
was the gang who planned the event.
Bond has decided not to leave town
after all.
report their single (“Anyway You
Want Me”) is No. 6 in St. Louis and
top twenty in Seattle. . . . Rave re-
views for the Mandala who appeared
here at the Hullabaloo. L. A. Times
writer Pete Johnson notes “an im-
pressive armory of equipment, fresh-
ness and ability . . . extraordinarily
effective . . . one of the best re-
hearsed groups ever to perform rock
‘n’ roll.” Their initial single, pro-
duced by Koppelman-Rubin, is “Op-
portunity”— no label set at the mo-
ment.
SUN RAYS
PAM FOURZON
MANDALA
Neil Diamond, appearing this week
at the Hullabaloo, is putting together
a rock n’roll package with famed en-
terprenuer Sol Hurok — a tour of the
Iron Curtain countries including Mos-
cow. . . . RCA’s Jefferson Airplane
set for a Dec. 28 concert date with
the Beach Boys at the Cow Palace
and a New Year’s eve appearance on
NBC’s Bell Telephone Hour. . . .
Righteous Bros, check into MGM this
week for pre-recording sessions with
Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller.
Session is for the up-coming segment
on “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”,
which marks the Duo’s acting debut.
Fred Smith, former Mira manager,
now heading Mo Soul, has a “bust-
out” in “Grits and Cornbread” by the
Soul Runners. Merrec promo man-
ager Jimmy Mack reports single
broke L. A. first. . . . 20th Century’s
latest group is the David, a quintette
of blond, long haired singer and in-
strumentalists whose first single is
titled “40 Miles” b/w “Bus Token
Fare”. . . . Michele Lee’s next sin-
gle for Columbia is “Wednesday’s
Child” b/w “I Am Yours”. . .
The Baja Marimba, set to co-star with
Wayne Newton at Melodyland in
Anaheim Jan. 17-22, were listed in
last week’s CB as the No 1 Newcomer
Band of ’66. . . . Don and the G"od-
times, new regulars on the Dick
Clark “Action” show, have started
taping the January shows. . . . Ber-
nard Yeszin, former art director for
Motown and ass’t art directon for
Liberty, has opened his own office —
accounts include the Monkees, Uni-
versal City Records and Double
Shot — address is 3739 Multiview
Drive in L. A. . . . John Andrea,
leader of the Young Gyants, audition-
ing for a part in the “Finian’s Rain-
bow” flick. . . . Tower Records’
Sunrays also set for Disneyland book-
ing through the new year.
“West Coast Girl of the Week” is
Glendale’s gift to the music world —
an occasional red head and always
attractive Pam Fourzon who is nres-
ently working part time at KCOP and
free lancing as an editorial writer
for “Teen Set”, “Teen Screen” and
“Soul”. Pam has been writing since
she was five — has appeared in Dave
Siegel’s “Blackouts of 1960” — and
you’ll be eyeing her soon on NBC’s
“The Dating Game”. She’s currently
working on a screenplay and novel
about Hollywood. '
Ruben Rodriguez and the Guadala-
jara Kings headline the lounge of the
Eden Roc in Miami through Jan.
3rd — the Liberty group also contract-
ed to appear at the Flamingo Hotel’s
Driftwood Lounge in Vegas starting
Jan. 26. . . . Liverpool Five, cur-
rently in town for a charity show.
HERE AND THERE:
Philadelphia: Matty “Hum Dinger”
Singer reports that he’s getting ac-
tion on “I’ll Take Care Your Cares”
by Frankie Laine and Tommy Roe’s
“It’s A New Winter’s Day.” In the
Blues bag, “Waiting On You” by
B. B. King and “Two Ways To Skin
A Cat” by Jimmy Reed are doing
well. On Boom, “Skate Pt. 1” by-
Dean Parrish is doing well. . .
(New York) Angela Martin is sked’ed
to do her ventriloquist act at the Pet
& Animal Show at the Coliseum. She
is appearing this week on the Joe
Franklin TV’er. . . . Elektra’s Steve
Harris has come up with what may
be a helpful hint as to how to go
about getting international airplay.
Use the Armed Forces Radio & TV
Network. Bill Ezell is the program
director for approx. 300 stations of
the network. He can be reached at
1016 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood,
Calif
Ron Weisner at Metro says that the
latest Lanie Kazan effort on MGM,
“Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,” is an out
and out smash and that the Olympics’
new one on Mirwood, “The Same Old
Thing,” is also a powerhouse. Ron
mentioned that the Gary Stevens
“Good Guy Oldie Album” is also doing
well. . . . The Satans 4, currently
playing at the Metropole in New
York, took time out last week
in order to play a benefit show “to
aid the culturally deprived children
of Brownsville.” The show was held
on Dec. 21 at Junior high school #263
in Brooklyn. . . . Atco has picked up
distribution rights to a deck on the
Hib label, entitled “If Its All The
Same To You Babe,” by Luther In-
gram. Ahmet Frtegun negotiated the
deal with Bob Bateman of Hib Rec-
ords. . . . Theodore Bikel recently
played his first solo concert in London
at the Royal Festival Hall before an
audience of over 3,000 persons. While
ir London the Elektra artist taped a
“Tonight In Person” TV’er for the
BBC. . . . Pete Seeger just played an
advance (no newspaper ad) sellout
concert at Carnegie Hall and is sched-
uled to play a solo concert at the
Olympia Theatre in Paris. . . . “Ooh
Poo Pa Doo” by Billy Graham &
Escalators is heading East after
breaking out in Cleveland. . . . An
all girl singing group called the Rea-
sons, has been signed to a personal
management contract by Frank Scin-
laro, who also manages the Va-
grants HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL.
20
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
r
I
Get set for high-powered sales action with this great Original Soundtrack recording from the exciting
new motion picture. Capturing all the flavor and style of the film, it’s right on target and sure to hit
the mark with movie-goers and record buyers everywhere, so stock up now! COMO/COSO-5003
COLGEMS
Manufactured and Distributed by RCA
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
21
SALUD — Stan Getz and Mort Nasatir, president of MGM/Verve, toast each
other after re-inking ceremonies at the diskery’s home office. Getz signed a
new long-term recording contract with the label just prior to his leaving on a
pa tour of Mexico. The current Getz LP on Verve is “Stan Getz With Guest
Artist Laurindo Almeida.’’
EPIC GOES LATIN— Epic Records
has signed a young trio known as Los
Melodicos and plans to release their
first LP, “Tu Me Has De Querer,’’
early in 1967. The group, pictured
above, is comprised of David Ortiz,
Roberto Garcia, and Montito Rivera.
The gToup performed at last sumer’s
Festival of Puerto Rican Music in
New York’s Central Park.
2 SMASH SINGLES!
m YOUR BREAD
MAKER BABY
SLIM HARPO
EXCELLO 2282
[HERE GOES A GIRL
LITTLE JOHNNY
TRUITT
A-BET 9416
415 Church St.
Nashville, Term. 615-242-2215
Lane Re-Elected
AGAC President
NEW YORK — Burton Lane has been
re-elected president of the American
Guild of Authors and Composers. This
marks his tenth year in that post,
having served since 1957. The com-
poser of “Finian’s Rainbow’’ initiated
the AGAC Collection of Royalty Plan
which collected a record-breaking .$2,-
500,000 in royalties for writers in
1966.
The AGAC Council also announced
that the following officers were also
elected: Leonard Whitcup, executive
vice president; Edward Eliscu, vice
president; Harry Ruby, president;
Alex Kramer, treasurer; Kay Swift,
secretary; and Abel Baer, chairman of
the board. All officers serve without
pay.
In mail balloting to annually select
seven new members of the Council,
the following received the highest
number of votes, and were elected:
Burton Lane, Edward Heyman, Leon-
ard Whitcup, Bennie Benjamin, John
Jacob Loeb, Kay Swift, and Clint
Ballard. According to the AGAC Con-
stitution, writers choose Council mem-
bers who in turn choose officers.
Burton Lane was the winner of the
first Sigmund Romberg award for dis-
tinguished service on behalf of Ameri-
can songwriters.
Peters New Merrec
Branch Manager
CHICAGO — Frank Peters, a veteran
of the Chicago record business since
1951, has been appointed branch
manager of Merrec Distributing here
replacing Burt Loob, who has re-
signed. Merrec is the Mercury Record
Corporation branch locally covering
the State of Illinois and Indiana.
Peters began his record business
career with Capitol Records in Chi-
cago as a salesman. He moved to the
Columbia Record Division of Sampson
Company, Chicago, where he worked
as a salesman from 1952 until 1959,
when Columbia Records opened its
Chicago branch. Peters remained with
the Columbia branch until 1963 as a
Chicago area salesman. He left the
record business for a year, returning
in March 1964, as Mercury Label’s
regional man in the midwest, head-
quartering in Chicago — a post which
he leaves to assume management of
Chicago Merrec.
iiiilillillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllH^ mill mil
FOCUS ON Jazz
illllllllllllliilllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
On a mid-November night in New
York City, after having watched The
Knicks win a ball game at Madison
Square Garden, it was decided that a
fitting climax to such an auspicious
beginning would be a visit to Basin
Street East to catch the new, and
much heralded big band of Buddy
Rich. It turned out to be a most re-
warding decision, because the band is
“Double Oh Ess,” out of sight!
Bright, But Serious
Buddy, whose life has been one of
music, has been making many tele-
vision appearance of late, some with
the band, but mostly as a single. This,
in conjunction with an active promo-
tional campaign to launch the new
band. To the average viewer, devotees
of programs like 'The Johnny Carson
show, or The Mike Douglas program,
it might appear that Buddy is too
casual and flippant to be a serious
bandleader. Nothing could be further
from the truth. To be sure. Buddy is
a wonderfully bright personality, and
he is endowed with a rapier-like flair
for comedy, but it should be made
known that when it comes to matters
musical, he is a veritable martinet.
When you see the band in person, or
hear its new Pacific Jazz album, you
will appreciate how Rich’s discipline
has infected the entire crew. It’s been
a long time since we’ve seen an as-
semblage of professional musicians,
many of them veterans, having such
a good time on the bandstand. This,
more than anything else, reflects the
spirit that abounds.
Drum Solo Magic
The new album. Buddy’s first as
part of a long term contract with
Pacific Jazz, is a very faithful crea-
tion of what the band actually sounds
like in person. It should be, because
it was done at The Chez in Holly-
wood, a former rock ’n roll palace, to
which Buddy and the band will return
in mid-January. The fidelity of the
album is a tribute to Wally Heider,
probably the best “on location” re-
cording engineer on The Coast. Some
of the veteran jazzmen who make up
the complement of the band are Gene
Quill, Marty Flax, Steve Perlow, Car-
son Smith, and John Bunch. The pro-
gram material has an excellent bal-
ance; there are five jazz originals,
including Sister Sadie; John Boice
gets a trombone solo on his own
arrangement of Gershwin’s My Man’s
: Gone Now from Porgy And Bess; Jay
! Corre, who gets the major portion of
' the solo playing throughout the al-
bum, is featured on the Oliver Nelson
' arrangement of a pop tune that was
' a hit of several months ago, Up
i Tight; finally, there is a ten minute
and forty five second version of a
West Side Story medley. Unquestion-
ably, this medley is the highlight of
the album, and it invariably brings
a standing ovation whenever it’s per-
i formed in person. The chart was done
I bv Bill Reddie, noted by Leonard
Feather in the liner as the house con-
ductor at 'The Dunes Hotel in Las
Vegas. When you hear this arrange-
ment, you must ask yourself, “Where
has this fellow been hiding?” Aside
from being the tour de force of the
album, this medley offers the only
instance of the Buddy Rich drum solo
magic.
‘Altogether Sound’
This leads to another observation:
too often when the leader is a drum-
mer he takes it as a license to use
the band as a vehicle to display his
drumnastics. Having listened to this
band in person, and having listened to
this album many times, it’s a treat to
report that Buddy Rich’s role in the
band is that of a member of the band.
True, when the arrangement dictates
it. Buddy does exhibit his rare talent
as a soloist, but, by and large, he
works as an integral part of the
rhythm section. This point of view,
or philosophy, is testimony to Buddy
Rich’s belief in the altogther sound,
a philosophy born of his vast big band
experience. That experience includes
tours of duty with Bunny Berrigan,
Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and on
and off, until recently, Harry James.
In between his big band stints. Buddy
fronted small jazz groups that,
although small in number, always
maintained the ensemble sound that
is characteristic to big bands.
It hardly seems possible that some-
one as energetic and contemporary as
Buddy Rich could have been as much
a part of the traditional swing era.
But it is an indisputable fact that
Buddy has made the transition from
era to era, vogue to vogue, with grace
and ease. One of the standing jokes
among the more enlightened music
appreciators is the fa^-t that the
“hippies” are always willing to ac-
knowledge that Buddy is a great
drummer, but have some reservations
about his ability to play jazz. Still,
whenever Rich comes to town for an
engagement, all the drummers who
are within commuting distance make
their pilgrimage to watch him play.
All the drummers means the “hippies”
included. Can it be that this un-
founded qualification about Buddy’s
playing is the result of inadequacy on
the part of those who can’t do what
Buddy can ? We’ve yet to hear a
“good” drummer deny that Rich is an
absolute phenomenon.
Battling Economics
In the light of present economic
obstacles only someone with Buddy’s
devotion to good, big band music
would undertake the launching of a
seventeen piece organization. It must
be assumed that Rich is acutely aware
of the difficulties attendant to keeping
a big band together. He’s enough of
a veteran to know the problems of
getting qualified players who are will-
ing to travel, getting sufficient book-
ings to keep the band working regu-
larly, without too many dry spells,
and the prohibitive costs that come
with traveling a big band. But Buddy
has a lot going for him; he’s an ex-
cellent leader, a throwback to the
days when a bandleader was some-
thing of a personality, as well as a
qualified player; the hand’s book is
such that it has an almost universal
appeal; and, finally. Rich’s reputation
as a great drummer precedes him.
Thus far, the band has heen kept very
busy, particularly with a European
tour in the immediate offing. The Rich
band is emminently qualified to be-
come a permanent part of the current
musical scene, and if Pacific Jazz and
the office that books the band do their
jobs adequately, there’s no reason to
believe that Buddy and his guys won’t
make it.
Australia Readies
Show For Expo 67
MONTREAL — As part of its official
participation in Expo 67’s world fes-
tival of entertainment, Australia has
put together a special variety show
called “Pop Goes Australia.”
The program of music, comedy and
, light entertainment will be presented
from May 29 to June 3 in the 2,000-
seat Expo Theatre on the 1967 World
Exhibition site in Montreal.
Some of Australia’s most popular
radio and TV performers have been
signed for “Pop Goes Australia,” in-
cluding: Bobby Limb, who will serve
as host, Normie Rowe, the Seekers,
Kathy Lloyd and Rolf Harris. Also on
the program will be boomerang-
throwing champion Frank Donnellan,
who will give a demonstration of that
uniquely Australian sport. Musicians
Johnny Bamford, Don Burows, Ron
Faison, George Gaella, Johnny Sangs-
ter and George Thompson will play
Dixieland for the program.
22
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
THE FIRST IN A L0N6 LINE OF HITS! ^ FROM A 6REAT NEW lAREL
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT; MARC GORDON / 1556 N. LA BREA AVE.. HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIF. / (Area Code 213) 465-3lk
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
' MS B Saw Thirty New Albums In Jan.
' NEW YORK — ?CA Victor has an-
Tiouaced 0 : leiease of thirty new LP’s
lor -he : of Jan The 30 are
spie;;d ovoii "he areas of pop, classical,
vintage, sacred and original cast.
Among the pop product are “Don
Bowman Recorded Almost Live,
“From Sergio — With Love” by Sergio
Franchi; Harold Vick and His Or-
chestra with “The Caribbean Suite;”
i “Out Of Sight” by The Liverpool
Five; “John Hartford Looks At Life;”
“The Broadway Soundaroundus” with
Marty Gold and his Orchestra; Barry
; Sadler offering “Back Home;” Dottie
West “With All My Heart And Soul;”
“John Gary Sings Especially For
You;” “The Blue Boys In Person;”
: “The Genius of Esquivel;” “Recorded
' Live At Your Father’s Mustache by
the World’s Finest Banjo Band;” “The
i Youngbloods” and “Floyd Cramer’s
“Here’s What’s Happening.”
A pair of original cast LP’s are in-
cluded in the release and they are
“Breakfast At Tiffany’s” and “Arrive-
derci. Baby!”
Classical product under the Red
Seal logo includes “Symphony No. 4
in E-Flat (Romantic) (Bruckner)” b v
Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony;
Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony” by
Kempe and the Royal Philharn^oni":
Bream’s “Lute Music From The Royal
Courts of Europe;” “Tales From Vien-
na” by Fiedler and the Boston Pops;
Bartok’s “Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and
3” by Peter Serkin and the Chicago
Symphony under Ozawa; “Stephen
Kates;” “Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti)”
and “Mazurkas (Chopin)” by Rubin-
stein.
Two sacred albums, “This I Be-
lieve” by Bobby Bare and “The Billy
Graham London Crusade Choir” are
included in the package. And two
new items, “Ray Noble” and “Fraction
Fingering” by Fats Waller are being-
added to the Vintage series.
The final product falls under the
Colgems heading and includes “More
Of The Monkees” and “Murderer’s
Row” and original soundtrack.
Capitol Opens ’67 With 31 Varied LP’s
HOLLYWOOD — Capitol opens 1967,
and its 25th anniversary, with 16
albums including new releases by Lou
Rawls, Nancy Wilson, Wayne Newton,
Buck Owens and the Lettermen.
Rawls, who has had two hit albums
in a row, offers a dozen new songs,
including his recent hit single, j
“Carryin’ On.” j
Nancy Wilson is backed by Billy
May’s orchestra for “Nancy — Natural- ;
ly”; Wayne Newton offers “It’s Only ,
The Good Times”; the Lettermen come |
up with love songs for a winter night
in “Warm”; and Buck Owens opens
the year with “Open Up Your Heart,”
an LP containing three of his recent |
hit singles.
David McCallum conducts his third
Capitol album, “Music — It’s Happen-
ing Now” and “The Sweetest Sounds
Today” are presented by Guy Lom-
bardo and the Royal Canadians.
George Shearing performs current
hits in “New Look” and England’s
LOOK!!!
A record destined
for the . . . TOP . . .
“Street
Without Joy”
by
Tommy Finch
on
Cobra
Records
Distributed by . . .
David Rosen, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Marne! of Maryland
Baltimore, Md.
Distributors in other
areas are invited to
help us gat this ter-
rific record to market.
leeori Oo.
lew Holiand, Pa.
Big Ben Banjo Band plays thirty of
the best-known Beatle tunes in
“Happy Banjos Play The Beatles.”
“All The (jood That’s Happening,”
is the first album by the Leaves, and
Ned Miller follows his latest single,
“Teardrop Lane,” with an album of
the same name. Comedy takes the
spotlight with “Adventures of Colored
Man” — a Negro counterpart to Super-
man— which was written by Teddy
Vann.
Completing the release are four al-
bums in the Capitol of the World
Series: “La Femme,” by Les Baxter,
performed by Frank Pourcel; “Nor-
wegian Songs Of Faith” with Olav
Werner and Galleberg Sangkor; and
Volumes 1 and 11 of “The Best Of
Django Reinhardt.”
Six new albums will be added to
the Seraphim low-priced classical line.
Four of the six will be available in
stereo and two in mono only. The
new albums are Verdi’s “Don Carlos”
(complete) with Antonietta Stella,
Elena Nicolai, Mario Filippeschi,
Tito Gobbi, Boris Christoff and the
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus,
Gabriele Santini conducting. The
three-disk set comes complete with
Libretto and is available in mono
only.
Denise Duval stars in Poulenc’s
“Les Mamelles De Tiresias.”
Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig is
featured in an album of Lieder by
Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Richard
Strauss and Mahler. Gerald Moore
accompanies on piano.
Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the
French Radio Orchestra in a perform-
ance of Franck’s “Symphony in D
Minor,” and piano virtuoso Claudio
Arrau performs the “Piano Concerto
No. 1 in B. Flat Minor” by Tchaikov-
sky, coupled with Weber’s “Konzert-
stueck.” Lastly, German pianist Hans
Richter-Haaser is represented by a
recording of Beethoven’s “Diabelli
Variations, OP. 120.”
A pair of albums by Leonard Pen-
nario and an LP of songs from France
performed by Carmen Dragon and
the Capitol Symphony will be added
to Capitol’s series of “Good Time”
Classics. The many moods of pianist
Pennario are displayed in two albums:
“The Spanish Piano” and “Leonard
Pennario Plays — Just For Fun.” The
Spanish album contains selections by
Falla, Lecuona, Granados and Albeniz.
“Just For Fun” features lighthearted
music by Poulenc, Liszt, Arensky,
Debussy and others.
“From France — With Love,” by
the Capitol Symphony under Carmen
Dragon, features Offenbach’s “Can-
Can,” the waltz from “Coppelia,”
“Alouette” and “The Maid With The
Flaxen Hair.” Also included: Ravel’s
“Pavane For A Dead Princess” and
the “Polonaise,” from “Mignon.”
Angel Records opens 1967 with
seven new releases, including a pair
of albums by Jacqueline Du Pre, the
young English cellist who makes her
first coast-to-coast U S. tour next
month. American-born pianist
Stephen Bishop accompanies Miss Du
Pre in Beethoven’s “Cello Sonatas
Nos. 3 and 5.
ALBUM PLANS
Deals, discounts and programs being offered to
dealers and distributors by record manufacturers.
AMY-MALA-BELL
Special incentive program through Dec. 20. See distribs for details.
AUDIO FIDELITY
Special 2 for 10 deal on all new releases and catalog. Expires Dec. 31, 1966
DIAMOND
"Buy 5 Get 1 Free” on all Diamond albums. Expires Jan. 31, 1967.
PEACOCK-DUKE
Buy 7 and-get-l-free on entire catalog, including new LP's. No expiration date
has been set.
FORTUNE
1 free album when 6 are purchased in any combination. No time limit.
GATEWAY
Two free for every 10 albums purchased on entire catalog. Expiration date in-
definite.
GNP CRESCENDO ril
15 albums free with purchase of 100 LP’s $3.79 and $4.79 retail. Indefinitely.
JEWEL-PAULA-WHIT
One free for every five purchased on entire catalog. No expiration date. J
LIBERTY 1
Special Hawaii theme promo. Terms available from distribs. Expires: Dec. 31. -
LITTLE DARLIN'
Special 2 on 10 deal on all product. No expiration date has been set.
NASHBORO [j
Buy-7-get-one-free on entire catalog including new LP’s. 100% exchangeable. ''
No expiration date has been set.
ORIGINAL SOUND
15% discount on all LP’s — until further notice.
PHILIPS ,
Discounts on new releases as well as entire catalog. SPM/SPS series are dis-
counted 10%, all other classical albums discounted 20%. No expiration date
announced.
PRESTIGE
15% discount on all LP product until further notice.
ROULETTE
15% discount in free merchandise. Expiration date indefinite.
SCEPTER-WAND
2 Albums free with every ten purchased. No termination date announced.
SIMS
3 free with every 10 purchased on entire catalog. No expiration date.
SMASH-FONTANA
Special discounts available through distribs. Expiration date not announced.
TAMLA-MOTOWN-GORDY
Buy-7-get-one-free. No expiration date has been set.
ft
Epic Sales Meet In Fla.
Set For Jan. 8 To 12
NEW YORK — Epic Records hosts a
national sales confab from Jan 8
to 12 in Miami Beach, Fla. All dis-
trib principals and/or distrib sales
managers and promotion managers
will attend.
Highlights of the sales meeting,
reports Mort Hoffman, marketing di-
rector, will be the unveiling of a new
sales incentive program, as well as
major new merchandising campaigns.
The label’s product scheduled for
Jan. and Feb. release will be an-
nounced. In addition, seminars in the
areas of sales and merchandising
will be held.
GYANT OPENING~On hand for the
opening at The Chez in Los Angeles
recently (Dec 7) of John D’Andrea
and the Young Gyants are a group
of Cameo/Parkway executives and
distributors. Standing (from left to
right) : Cecil Holmes, national pro-
motion manager; Dick Gersh, presi-
dent of Richard Gersh Associates,
Inc., public relations counsel for
Cameo/Parkway; John D’Andrea and
Gene Gotthelf of Globe Distributing
in East Hartford. In the middle is
Neil Bogart, Cameo/Parkway’s sales
manager. Seated at the table from
left to right are; Marty Thau, region-
al promotion manager; Ed Redman
of M. S. Distributing in Chicago;
Larry King of Dixie Distributing in
Atlanta and Steve Goober, a local
promotion man for Cameo/Parkway.
D’Andrea’s first LP “Young Gyants
At The Chez” has just been released
on Cameo/Parkway.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
24
Steviel^nder
to earth
A PLACE IN THE SUN
BANG BANG THANK YOU LOVE
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
HEY LOVE SIXTEEN TONS
DOWN TO EARTH
SYLVIA ^ THE LONESOME ROAD
MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU
ANGEL BABY (Don’t You Ever Leave Me)
BE COOL, BE CALM (And Keep Yourself Togethj
HAVE YOU NOTICED
THE INCREASED USE
OF THE ALBUM SLICK
AS AN ADVERTISEMENT
IN CASH BOX?
TOP 50 IN R&B
] TELL IT LIKE IT IS
Aaron Noviila (Por/ow t(
LOCATIONS
^ frank Sinatra (Paprim SSI)
2 MUSTANG SALLY
Wlhon Pickett (Atlanile J«S
4 STAND BY ME
Spyrfcr Timor (MGM 1361T)
5 WACK WACK
Yaang Holt Trie (Brunsrrick
A try a little tenderness 9
^ Otis Podding (Veit 1411
7 ARE YOU LONELY FOR ME 6
freddlo Scott (Shout 207)
B WHISPERS
** Jackie Wilson (Brunswick SSJOO)
9 I'M READY FOR LOVE
Martha & The Vondellas (Gerdy 705*)
IQ I VE PASSED THIS WAY BEFORE/
TOMORROW'S TEARS 13
Jimmy PulHn (Soul S5077)
1 ] PAPA WAS TOO
' Joe To (Dial 4051)
13 MERCY, MERCY
' Cannon Ball Adderly
ily (Capitol 5796;
] 4 STANDING IN THE SHADOW
^ OF LOVE 17
4 Tops (Mettrrrn 1)02)
15 I'M YOUR PUPPET
James A Bobby Purify (Boll 649)
lA YOU NEED CONFIDENCE
^ Van Ikfkes (Mala 549)
1 7 1 FOOLED YOU THIS TIME
Geno Cfioni#/«f (Checker 1155)
1 Q BACK IN THE SAME OLD BAG
** AGAIN 2
aobb*- Blond (Duke 412)
1 Q KARATE
' Emperor's (Mala 543)
20 MEY LEROY YOUR MAMA'S
CALLIN' YOU
21 YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON 12
Suoreme* (Motimrn ItOI)
22 WY BABY'S GONE 21
Donald Height (Shout 204)
23 LOOKATGRANNYRUNRUN 32
Howard Tate (Verve 10444)
24 IT TEARS ME UP 25
Percy Sledge (4(/ont/c 2JS6;
25 PARTY
'UUUIUI ^
26 another night _ 1
DlonneWorwlck(Sccptefl2W)
-- 1
27 HUMMING
“• Som & Dare (Stas 204)
28 ' can t please you
Jimmy Pebblns (Jerhart 207)
29 I'M GONNA MISS YOU
4r</jfJei (Brunswick SJJOi;
30 !;(1T''LONe you need
Miracles (Tamla 54U0;
31 96 TEARS
Big A4ayM( (Pe)oe 112)
32 SILVER BELLS
Earl Grant (Dacca 25703;
33 S*®'' WHAT, I MEAN
Dr»/leri (Atlantic 2364)
34 ON GUARD
falcons (Big Wheel 1967)
35 ^CU CAN BRING ME ALL
YOUR HEARTAChS
Lea Pawls (Capttel 5799)
36 SUPERMAN
Hesitations (Kopp 790)
37 BLACK OLIVES
Bad Bays (Paula 254)
38 aSn"' p\a'‘« ®
Mabla John (Stan 205)
39 fOR A LITTLE
40 IS SOUL! 3„
Ben E. King (Atec 64S4)
41 A GOOD LOVE rn
Lorraine Ellison (Warner Bros. 5859) °
42 *-EAVE me 47
Thelma Jones (Barry 1010)
43 9J?OSS CUT SAW
4/lierf King (Stas 20)}, ~~
44 the tramp aA
Lowell fulseme (Kent 456)
45 F-SMi^^^P^^NTS OF LOVE Aa"
Lrtila Richard (Okeh 4-7242)
46 COME BY here __•
Inez 9 Chortle Fex iMusicer 1201)
47 JovJfs”*'" *YR0NG my
Mottle Moultrie (Columbia 443657;
48 fYERYBODY DANCE NOW — '
Soul City (Goodtime 801)
49 I LOVE YOU MORE aPtw
Lee Williams i Cymbals (Carnlyal 521) ‘
50 «
1987;
Next time an angry mother asks you:
sell her this
The star of TV’s “Family Affair’’ with a
record that’s going to be a family affair. It’s an
adult guide to teenagers-^their insights,
their outlooks, their music.
No! Sebastian’s single won’t turn a
Scarsdale matron into a Village mlni-skirter.
But it will tell her where it’s at.
SEBASTIAN CABOT
AND MOSTLY THEYSING
b/w It Ain’t Me Babe K-13650
from the up-coming album
SEBASTIAN CABOT, ACTOR
READS BOB DYLAN, POET
E/$E-4431
Produced by Stan Katron
MGM Records is a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
MGM
RECORDS
4
ItOJAC
Is Now Distributed By ROJAC
Breaking This Week —
A SMASH ALBUM!
‘BIG’ MAYBELLE
(America's Queen Mother Of Soul)
GOT A BRAND NEW BAG”
Rojac 122
And . . . From The LP A Smash Single
“96 TEARS”
RA 112
75,000 Sold In 11 Days
Charted R & B And Pop!
Record World-Cash Box-Billboard
Thanks From
Jack Taylor, Pres.
Claude Sterrett, V. Pres.
Dave Braithwaite, Nat. Sales & Promo.
# &
Ken Lutman — Indie Promo.
Jerry McGee — Midwest Promo.
Contact: Claude Sterrett,
ROJAC RECORDS, INC.
1274 5th Avenue, New York, New York
A/C 212-348-0665
iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
PLATTER
SPINNER
PATTER
Curses, foiled again! That’s the
probable reaction of the villain who
called WNVY-Pensacola and asked to
endorse and co-promote the appear-
ance of the Animals and Question
Mark and the Mysterians at Pensa-
cola Municipal Auditorium on Dec. 16.
The caller identified himself as a
member of Universal Talent and told
WNVY that there would be no tickets
sold at the door, only advanced ticket
sales. The outlet’s management be-
came suspicious and contacted Ron
Sunshine of Premier Talent in New
York, sole booking agent for the two
groups. Sunshine stated that the Ani-
mals would not arrive in this country
until mid-February and that Question
Mark and the Mysterians would be
enroute to Santa Fe, New Mexico on
Dec. 15 for an appearance Dec. 16.
Local and state law enforcement
agents are still investigating.
A new concept in news and public
affairs programming for W ABC-New
York, T.S.T., Total Station Thrust, has
been inaugurated at the outlet. T.S.T.
will explore major issues facing the
community through in-depth reports,
documentaries, press conferences, edi-
torials, and public service announce-
ments, all concentrated in a period of
one week. T.S.T. began on Dec. 11
with a week-long series of features on
the air pollution problem. Kick-off to
the series was an appearance bv air
pollution commissioner Austin Heller
on the Dec. 11 WABC Press Con-
ference. WABC vice president and
general manager Walter A. Schwartz
will deliver editorials throughout the
week. Informing the public of its re-
sponsibilities in the fight against air
pollution, and pointing to whatever
deficiencies may exist in current pub-
lic programs aimed at curbing pollu-
tion. Over half of WABC’s public
service announceme’^ts will be devoted
to the topic. The first T.S.T. project
ended on Sunday, Dec. 18 with a half-
hour documentary renorted by
Murphy Martin of WA^BC News.
Other T.S.T. series will deal with
other major problems and issues at
periodic intervals.
Two Chicago FM outlets have
merged. WXFM has taken over the
facilities of WCLM-FM and now hits
the air waves as a 50,000 watt outlet,
transmitting from the 524 high an-
tenna atop the 333 North Michigan
building. Broadcasting twenty-four
hours a day, WXFM is best known as
ay good music” station, featuring clas-
sical and show music. Robert C. Vic-
tor, WXFM general manager since
1959, purchased the outlet in Oct.
1965. He is the former publisher of
FM Guide Magazine, which he sold
last year to Omnibus Magazine.
Charles Schulz’s Snoopy, already on
the charts with “Snoopy Vs. The Red
Baron,” is now up for KATI-Casner,
Wyoming’s version of the DFC. The
outlet is inviting listeners to send in
old medals they may have on hand to
Johnny Shea, wake-up deejay who is
on the air from 5 A.M. to 7 A.M.
Snoopy will be decorated with the
medals selected as winners. If lis-
teners have no medals, they are in-
vited to make or draw and color them
and forward them to KATI. Top win-
ners will receive free copies of the
Royal Guardsmen’s single, or any of
the outlet’s Fabulous Fourteen Survev
records. Losers will enjov a bright
moment of fame; they will be dubbed
“Dog Fight Losers,” and have their
names read on the “Shot Down In
Action” list every morning on the
Johnny Shea Show. Nice going, losers.
Bob Ferris, host of KNX-Holly-
wood’s “Firing Line,” presented a 90-
minute documentary, “A Slice Of
Christmas” on Dec. 22. Ferris, noted
for his man-on-the-street interviews,
took his tape recorder to contrasting
areas of Los Angeles to present the
varying moods of the holiday season.
He chatted with an over-burdened
shopper in Beverly Hills, a derelict on
Skid Row, a shoeblack, and the owner
of a gift shop for poodles. From the
people he spoke with and the places
he visited, Ferris put together a
“sound” panorama of holiday atti-
tudes. The program was produced by
Skip Ferderber.
Gene Klavan, 20-year veteran of
radio and TV, has formed Profile Pro-
ductions, Ltd., a new production and
syndication company that will pack-
age interview programs for FM radio
outlets throughout the country. Ini-
tially, the company will provide 15
female-oriented half-hour broadcasts
produced weekly in New York, Wash-
ington, Hollywood, London and Paris.
WNEW-FM-New York began broad-
casting the programs Dec. 13. The
outlet will broadcast two programs
weekly while seeking audience reac-
tion to time of day and day of week.
WNEW-FM will carry the programs
for at least 13 weeks with the outlet
programming three programs daily,
five days per week. Commenting on
his new organization, Klavan said,
“Right now, FM stations do not pro-
vide today’s exciting, interested
American woman enough motivation
to tune in. The programming we will
offer, tailored for women and done by
women, will not only stimulate listen-
ing, but also will give FM stations
the opportunity to compete for the
advertising dollar with bright and ex-
citing foreground broadcasting.”
ROYALTY AT WINSOR CASINO:
Jimmy Durante will be king of the
castle at Elmwood Casino in Winsor,
Ontario, Canada during his appear-
ance there. The court which attends
him is composed of (1. to r.) Vince
Pernicano, Detroit area promo man
for Warner Bros./Reprise; Mrs. Perni-
cano; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cannon,
WKNR-Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Schafer, CKLW-Winsor-Ontario; and
Dick Perton and Ed Mullen, WKNR-
Detroit.
SPUTTERS: Robert Irvine has been
promoted to the newly created post
of assistant news director of the
KNX-Hollywood and CBS Radio Pa-
cific Network News Bureau. . . . Gene
Taylor has been appointed general
manager of WLS-Chicago. . . .Tom
Cross has joined KPRS-Kansas City,
Mo. as program director. . . . “Jolly”
Jerry Boulding has been made produc-
tion director at WOL-Washington,
D.C. . . . Bill Kenner is music director
at WBEE-Harvey, 111.
VITAL STATISTICS: Richard A.
O’Leary, previously program super-
visor at KFMB-TV-San Diego, is now
assistant to the Channel 7 director of
programing Lee Schulman at WBKB-
TV-Chicago. . . . Barry Richards exited
WUST-Washington, D.C. for WINX-
Rockville, Md. . . . Les Anderson has
moved from WABQ-Cleveland to
KYOK-Houston. . . . Sam Moore has
left WGOK-Mobile for WJLD-Birm-
ingham. . . . Oscar “Daddi-0” Alex-
ander, formerly with WENZ-Rich-
mond, is now in the morning slot at
WEBB-Baltimore.
I
1
I
r
-f
1
i
e
A
r
I
A
(
6
C
30
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
Cash Box — ^December 31, 1966
31
*
Lsaves Kapp
NSW YORK — Joe Zaleski has an-
iiouneed uis rcesignation from Kapp
Icscords. v^iiere he held the position
of general manager of the western
division.
In making the announcement, Za-
ieski stated that his decision to ter-
minate his association with Kapp was
based on personal considerations. He
said that his relationship with other
top-level company executives had been
and continues to be ‘’most amicable.”
He also stated that he will announce
his new plans in the near future.
Zaleski joined Kapp two years ago
as manager of distrib sales. In May
of this year he was promoted to gen-
eral manager, western division, in
which position he was responsible for
sales, promotion, publishing and artist
relations on the West Coast. He also
set up Kapp’s West Coast office at
6725 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
He entered the record industry in
California, in a post which the Inter-
national department of Liberty Rec-
ords. Later, he was associated with
Liberty as division Sales manager in
both Chicago and New York. In the
latter city, he joined DCP Records, a
new firm at that time, which was
formed by arranger-conductor, Don
Costa. He served with DCP as national
sales manager and played a major
role in establishing Little Anthony
and the Imperials as a top disk attrac-
tion. From DCP, he moved in Mar-ch
1965 to Kapp.
Victor Inks Dichter
NEW YORK — Mischa Dichter, the
21-year-old American pianist, who
won a silver medal in this year’s In-
ternational Tchaikovsky Competition
in Moscow, has been signed to an ex-
clusive recording contract by RCA
Victor.
Announcement was made by Roger
Hall, manager. Red Seal Artists and
Repertoire, who said Dichter’s initial
recording will be with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra in a perform-
ance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Con-
certo No. 1 directed by Erich Leins-
dorf.
“We are proud to have Dichter as
a Red Seal artist and look forward to
many distinguished recordings from
him,” Hall said.
His debut concerto is the same that
launched Van Cliburn as a Red Seal
Artist for RCA Victor when he be-
came the first American to win the
Moscow competition in 1958.
Dichter was born in Shanghai and
moved to Los Angeles with his parents
at the age of two. He took his first
piano lessons in Los Angeles at the
age of six. His first success came in
1961 at the age of 15 when he won
first prize in a competition sponsored
by the Western Division of the Music
Educators National Conference. He
studied with Aube Tzerko and later
came to the attention of the noted
piano teacher, Rosina Lhevinne, who
invited him to study at the Juilliard
School. It was following his studies
at Juilliard that he entered the Mos-
cow competition.
FCC Approves merger
Between ITT and ABC
NEW YORK— The FCC last week
ruled in favor of the proposed merger
between the American Broadcasting
Company and the International Tele-
phone and Telegraph Corp. The mer-
ger, aproved by a 4 to 3 vote, will re-
sult in a corporation with total assets
of almost $214 billion, making it one
of the top 20 largest companies in the
country. The deal is expected to be
completed late in Jan.
In direct opposition to the comments
of many, including members of Con-
gress, that the extensive foreign oper-
ations of ITT “would by some sinister
and unexplained means exert influence
upon the interests of the United
States broadcast public,” the majority
of the commission claimed that ITT’s
acquisition of ABC would enhance,
rather than hurt, competition in
broadcasting by giving ABC a
stronger financial setup.
According to Donald F. Turner, who
heads up the antitrust division of the
Justice Department, “the outcome of
the case has been a foregone conclu-
sion.” He added that the Justice De-
partment was not presently planning
on bringing suit against the merger.
MGM Sales
(Continued from page 7)
the overall success picture.”
The ’67 first quarter figure, largest
in the company’s 20 year history,
comes hard on the heels of MGM’s
strongest sales and profit year in
1966. The label’s 1966 billing was up
52 percent over the previous record
total for 1965.
Nasatir cited an “integrated team
effoi't as the underlying reasons for
the impressive growth.” “Top artists,
top product, effective marketing and
first class distributor cooperation all
contributed to the success on the na-
tional as well as the international
level,” the label chief said, “It’s also
gratifying to know that many of our
biggest stars today were introduced
or have developed under the MGM
growth pattern.”
Behind the general upswing in sales
were a number of diversifying product
moves by the firm and exploitation of
potential in record and allied musical
fields.
The record firm acquired a number
of significant soundtrack albums, like
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Doctor Zhi-
vago,” which were industry leaders.
M(5M Records also entered the tape
field with a fully-rounded program
that featured a strong push on four
and eight track cartridge product and
the “highly successful” introduction
of the MGM Playtape 2 portable
cartridge player. In commenting on
this facet of company operations
Nasatir said that Playtape 2 had “far
exceeded our expectations.
The label comnlex also entered the
Cauitol Record Club in 1966 and has
been an important asset to that organ-
ization’s product picture.
Another growth factor has been the
continued development of MGM’s
‘*1 Don^t Like A Girl
With Hairy Legs”
Norman Andre
“IT’S WILD!” Chris Lane WJJD Chicago
PALOMINO RECORDS 213 ho 5-2424
6208 Santa M onica Boulevard Hollywood
NATIONAL PROMOTION: George Jay Hollywood
CY COLEMAH SINGS
I “WHERE AM I GOING”
on Columbia Records soon
4
NOTICE TO ALL ADVERTISERS
BECAUSE OF A PRINTER’S HOLIDAY
THIS FRIDAY, CASH BOX URGES ALL
ADVERTISERS TO PLAN ON DELIVERING
ALL COPY AND PLATES ON OR BEFORE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28 TO THE
CASH BOX NEW YORK OFFICE. FINAL
DEADLINE IS THURSDAY, DECEMBER
29, AT 11:30 AM..
wholly-owned Metro distribution
branches in New York, Chicago and
Los Angeles, and its stronger repre-
sentation in the international market,
especially the starting of its own com-
pany with Ricordi in Italy.
New Offices
Stateside, MGM Records has made
a concerted drive in the rhythm and
blues and country music fields. The
emergence of the Royalettes, Howard
Tate and Spyder Turner, to name just
a few, in the R&B field and the addi-
tion of key personnel in that field
have a marked difference in sales.
MGM has also opened its own C&W
office in Nashville headed by Jim
Vienneau. This proximity to the mar-
ket has resulted in the acquisition of
artists like The Stonemans, Tompall
and the Glaser Brothers and Sandy
Posey to an already strong artists’
roster led by Hank Williams, Jr. and
Sheb Wooley. In addition Hack Cle-
ment will be working closely with
Vienneau as an independent producer.
MGM has also opened its own rec-
ords division offices in Los Angeles
under the guidance of Clive Fox. This
operation will account for stepped un
control of West Coast talent and A&R
operation with a special emphasis on
significant soundtracks.
Distribution
Nasatir also mentioned the con-
tinued sales expansion of various
exclusive distribution deals as an im-
nortant part of the MGM sales boom.
Deutsche Grammophon classical nrod-
uct for example, which the label dis-
tributes in the Unitpd States, was up
20 percent over 1965 at a time when
the classical business is slow general-
ly-
The MGM Records’ distributed in-
denendent Kama-Sutra label with the
hit Lovin’ Spoonful, was well over ’65
sales figures, and the label is showing
even rnore impact with chart product
from The Innocence. The Trade Winds
and The Sopwith “Camel.”
Soundtrack Leader
In the all important soundtrack
area. Nasatir underlined MGM’s out-
standing job as industry-leader with
ttiree ton-selling, chart-busting LP’s
“Doctor Zhivago,” “Born Free.” and
“The Singing Nun.” The recording of
the Academy Award winning
Maurice .Tarre score for the Metro-
Goldwyn-Maver film “Zhivao-o,” ranks
among the all-time best selling sound-
tracks. To date the album is well oyer
the one million mark.
Other artists on the MGM label
haye also scored heayily with album
product: among them are Connie
Francis, Herman’s Hermits, Eric (i
Burdon And The Animals, Sam The J
Sham and The Pharaohs, Roy Orbi- ^
son and Lou Christie. Jj
Verve Expansion If
Nasatir also singled out the diyersi-
fication of the Verye label as an im- ||
posing ingredient in the record-break- ip
ing sales results. The addition of the \i
Righteous Brothers, the initial entry
from The Mothers of Inyention and '
from Arthur Prysock haye nicely )J
augmented strong sales from Jimmy i
Smith, Stan Getz, Willie Bobo, Wes
Montgomery, Cal Tjader and Astrud
Gilberto. Walter Wanderley’s first
album has also giyen a significant J
sales boost to Verye.
Talking about futures becoming pre- j
sents, Nasatir referred to the Verye/ l
Folkways scene which continues to
“build nicely” under label manager
Jerry Schoenbaum’s direction. He re- ^
yealed that orders for the second Blues
Project album, “Projections,” haye
already topped sales of their first LP.
Two more artists are “substantial
sellers,” Janis Ian and Laura Nyro.
The King Leo label was also formed
in 1966 as a regular price deluxe,
double-fold line to tie in with TV
spectaculars and out-of-the-ordinary
childrens’ product. The first numbers '
in this line, “How the Grinch Stole
Christmas” based on the MGM-TV
snecial, and “You’re A Good Man
Charlie Brown,” based on the “Pea-
nuts” cartoon characters, haye been
most successful.
<
Budget Growth
In February of 1966, MGM Records
added new labels to its budget repre-
sentation that made a most significant ^
contribution to the total sales picture.
In addition to better-than-ever sales
from its pop Metro banner, VSP was
created to appeal to the budget-minded
iazz buyer. Heliodor was tailored
snecificallv for the classical buyer and
Leo the Lion Records was brought un
to date and scored with its “liye
action” and education-slanted play
albums. “Batman.” “Superman.” and
many other new titles sold well.
The Singles Front
On the singles front, the MGM »
family of labels, racked up consistent
chart and sales action with its maior <
artists. The label had its biggest sales
week for singles in December when
more than 655,000 45’s were sold. In
when 1P66 two of these singles, “LiP
Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham
and The Pharaohs and “Summer In
The City” by The Loyin’ Snoonful <
qualified for RIAA certification as
million sellers. r
3a
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
33
'AWMiTHEKINCi,
THE WICKED PICKETT— Wilson Pickett—
Atlantic M /S 8138
A collection of pop-R & B standards and new
blues material. “Mustang Sally,” currently on
the charts, is the lead otf tune. Other efforts are
“Everybody Needs Somebody To Love” and
“Three Time Loser.” Wilson Pickett displays an
earthy, down-home style, and the album should
be in great demand. Both the singer’s fans, in
particular, and lovers of good pop sounds in gen-
eral. should make this LP a winner.
A SYMPHONY FOR SUSAN— The Arbors-
Date TEM 3003/TES 4003
The Arbors sing a batch of pop goodies. A
fresh, talented, and versatile group, the quartet
renders the title tune, “A Symphony For Susan,”
a recent chart item, and “A Day In The Life Of
A Fool” to create a unique, distinctive sound on
this album, and this is one of the reasons that the
set is likely to be a huge success.
THE EGGPLANT THAT ATE CHICAGO— Dr.
West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band — Go Go 22
17 001
This is a wild outfit. Dr. West’s Medicine Show
and Junk Band uses kazoo, washtub, washboard,
1949 Buick car bumper bracket, Taiwan finger-
piano, and Tibetan temple block. The tunes in-
clude the title song, “'The Eggplant That Ate
Chicago,” “How Lew Sin Ate,” and “The Old
Fruit Peddler.” The group’s soft, subtle sound
takes on the power of a marching band. This LP
should be a hot sales item.
TOMORROW NEVER COMES— B. J. Thoma.s—
Scepter SRM/SPS 556
The unique song styling of B. J. Thomas is
evident everywhere in this LP. Included on the
disk are the title tune “Tomorrow Never Comes,”
“Gonna Send You Back To Georgia,” and “I Don’t
Have A Mind Of My Own.” The artist displays
faithfulness to his material and style and the
album should be a favorite among his many
devotees.
dTHECmTOLS
WEGOTATHING
POP BEST BETS
UP AND AWAY— The Kingsmen— Wand WDM/
WDS 675
The Kingsmen perform fourteen rock items on
this album. New innovations in sound and choice
of material are in evidence in this set. The lead
off tune “If I Needed Someone,” written by Beatle
George Harrison, exemplifies this new sound.
“Grass Is Green” and “Children’s Caretaker” are
both sensitive and simple in feel and poetic in
lyric. The Rolling Stones’ Mick dagger contrib-
utes “Under My Thumb.” The LP should be a real
mover.
FROM RIO WITH LOVE— Walter Wanderley—
Tower T/TS 5047
Featuring such cleffings as: “Rio And I,”
“Quiet Stars,” “Life’s Poem,” and “I’ll Only Go
With A Woman,” this set is a rich and varied
program of Walter Wanderley’s music. This one
is a sure to please item for all of Wanderley’s
many fans as well as fans of Latin music in
general.
MA VIE — MY LIFE — Paul Vance — Scepter SRM/
SPS 557
Paul Vance, songwriter, records his first LP as
a singer. He sings “Dommage, Dommage,” a
tune he wrote, the title track “Ma Vie (My
Life),” and “My Little Corner Of The World.”
The artist demonstrates that he can blend mean-
ingful interpretations of his own works and that
of others with the flair of a total professional.
This album should serve as a fine introduction of
the chanter to an appreciative audience.
SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR TITLE— Jim
Kweskin & Jug Band — Vanguard VRS 9234/VSD
79234
A pleasant and delightful romp into the devil-
may-care, frolicking world of jug band music.
“Blues In The Bottle,” “Never Swat A Fly,”
“Richland Woman,” “ Papa’s On The Housetop,”
and “Viola Lee” are outstanding tracks. A sure to
please gift item, especially for the folk-oriented
listener. Set is already climbing the Top 100
Albums.
THE KISSIN’ COUSINS SING— Lew Davies and
his Orchestra — Project 3 PR5001SD
Another Project 3 Total Sound recording. The
Kissin’ Cousins sing against the background of
orchestral arrangements of Lew Davies. The LP
presents a sharp definition of solos and sections,
warm presence of musical colors and instrumental
characteristics, plus the excitement of “in-depth,”
total realization of orchestration and dynamics.
This package should make a lot of friends.
WE GOT A GOOD THING— Capitols— Atco M/S
33-201
The Capitols offer a gathering of rock efforts.
The group demonstrates on this album that it can
handle many different types of material. The
selections include tunes that have been hits for
other artists, like the Troggs’ “Wild Thing,”
Percy Sledge’s “When A Man Loves A Woman,”
as well as the Capitols’ own “We Got A Thing
That’s In The Groove.” The trio sings them all
with zest and fervor, and the LP is likely to
prove a fast-moving sales item.
A MAN AND A WOMAN — Ferrante & Teicher —
United Artists— UAL 3572/UAS 6572
The gifted Ferrante and Teicher interpret
motion picture themes. Among the tracks are the
title tune, “A Man And A Woman,” “Comedy
Tonight,” from “A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum,” and “Born Free.” The
duo has taken the great new melodies from the
screen and made them their own on this album,
via their lush string-filled orchestra and their
dazzling arrangements. This ore should be a
crowd-pleaser.
THE BEST OF PIAF— Edith Piaf— Capitol D/DT
2616
An excellent offering of songs by the late Edith
Piaf. “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” “T’es Beau, Tu
Sais,” and “Milord” are among the better tracks
on this fine album. All of Edith Piaf’s many,
many loyal fans are sure to go for this one.
CHANGES — Jackie & Roy — Verve V/V6-8668
This delightful offering of jazz/pop ditties by
Jackie Cain and Roy Krai is sure to please all of
the duo’s many fans. “Changes,” “Norwegian
Wood,” “Yesterday,” “In My Life,” and “The
Word” are excellent tracks on this, their first LP
on Verve. Likely to be a very fast moving
package.
MUSIC FROM CABARET— Jo Basile & Orches-
tra—Columbia CL 2575/CS 9375
The “Continental Sound” of Jo Basile’s Orches-
tra is well suited to the shifting moods of John
Kander’s “Cabaret” score. “Willkommen,” “To-
morrow Belongs To Me,” “Why Should I Wake
Up?,” and the title song are blue-ribbon ventures.
Likely to be a fast moving set with fans of the
mainstemmer.
34
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
II
POP BEST BETS
TRIBUTE TO RHYTHM AND BLUES-Chuck
Jackson— Wand WDM/WDS 676
A power-packed R&B workout by Chuck Jack-
son, this set features such well known tunes as
Wind,” “Hold On I’m Coming,”
bd45789, and “Sonny” to name only four of the
moie outstanding efforts. All of the artist’s many
tans should go for this one in a big way.
NOT WITH MY WIFE YOU DON’T— Soundtrack
—Warner Bros. W/WS 1668
The original soundtrack from the Warner Bros,
tlick of the same title, should be a welcome sou-
venir of the cinema venture. The “Main Title ”
Hey Julietta,” “Big Beautiful Ball,” and “Ar-
rivederci Hondo” are among the more outstand-
ing tracks. Could be a popular set with the movie
goers.
TEQUILA A GO GO — Richard Davis & The Te-
quila Brass— Audio Fidelity AFSD 616.5
Richard Davis and the Tequila Brass interpret
a group of pop outings. Trumpeter Davis, with
wide experience in both classical and popular
music, brings his virtuosity to bear on this disk
Numbered among the tracks are “Shadow Of
Your Smile,” “Guantanamera,” and “Cherry Pink
& Apple Blossom White.” This album will find
tavor with a large audience.
LYNDONLAND— Various Artists— P S CB 558M/
558S
Produced by Mischa Pelz and Willis S. (Sandy)
Sanders this LP satirizes Lyndon Johnson and his
administration. The title track features a tour of
Lyndonland,” an amusement park against which
much of the album’s comedy takes place. With
comedy disks a heavy selling business, this set is
likely to see lots of chart action.
THE REAL FOLK BLUES — John Lee Hooker —
Chess LP/LPS 1508
An offeiing of folk blues by John Lee Hooker,
who IS certainly one of the foremost exponents of
this musical form. “Peace Lovin’ Man,” “Stella
Mae’^^ and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One
Beer are all blue-ribbon tracks. Bound to be a
popular LP, especially with folk fans.
LiyiNCl LEGENDS— Son House, Skip James,
Williams— Verve/Folkways
r 1/1' 1 S 3010
Recorded live at the Cafe Au-Go-Go in Green-
1 ^ package full of blues.
White’s “Poor Boy,” Skip James’ “I’m So
^ j ’c Somebody Evil” by Big Joe Williams,
and Son House’s “Levee Camp Moan” are truly
outstandii^ tracks. A must for the collector of
folk and Blues material.
PETER AND THE WOLF AND THE INCREDI
BLE JIMMY SMITH— Verve V/V6-8652
This version of the famous orchestral worl
differs in many ways from the original. This is
without narration and it makes use of the jazi
gToup, not the symphony orchestra. The origna:
themes are used but they are now somehow dif-
ferent because of the orchestration. There is new
music, too, intended to give this version duration
and to give Jimmy Smith room in which to im-
provise. The album, highly original in concept,
should find its originality rewarded in the market
place.
SPELLBINDER — Gabor Szabo — Impulse A/AS
9123
Gabor Szabo, guitarist, is featured in a group
of jazz renditions. He is backed up by Chico
Hamilton, drums; Don Carter, bass; and Victor
Pantoja and Willie Bobo, Latin percussion. In-
cluded on the album are “Spellbinder,” the title
Hack, “It Was A Very Good Year,” and “Bang
Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).” Szabo stresses
the importance of self-expression on this set, and
his dedication to that quality is evident every-
where on the LP. The disk figures to be highly
popular.
RAISING THE ROOF — Odell Brown & Organ-
izers—Cadet LP/LPS 775
Odell Brown and the Organ-izers raise the roof
outings. The group is composed of
Odell Brown, organ; Artee (Duke) Payne, tenor
and alto sax; Thomas Purvis, tenor sax; and
Curtis Prince, drums. Featured among the tracks
are the title effort, “Raising The Roof,” “Strike
Up The Band,” and “Day Tripper.” The Organ-
izers evince fine musicianship on this album, and
the LP should become a chart contender.
CLOSER— Paul Bley Trio— ESP— Disk 1021
A free-swinging excursion into the jazzman’s
world. Personnel of the Paul Bley Trio includes:
Barry Altshol, percussion; Steve Swallow, bass;
and Paul Bley, piano. The title song, “Sideways
In Mexico,” and “Start” are blue-ribbon tracks.
A must for the jazz fancier.
CLASSICAL PICKS
DEBUSSY: THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. SEBAS-
TIAN — New York Philharmonic/Bernstein— Co-
lumbia M2L 353/M2S 753
This boxed set is the first English recording of
this monumental work of Debussy and texts are
enclosed. The New York Philharmonic under the
masterful direction of Leonard Bernstein, pro-
vides the background for the text as spoken by
Felicia Montealegre and Fritz Weaver. This, the
only religious work of Debussy’s maturity, ’is a
must for those interested in the music of this
fine composer.
THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE — New York City
Opera — Heliodor HS-25035-3
This opera by Douglas Moore and John Latouch
is masterfully performed by the New York City
Opera featuring Beverly Sills, Walter Cassel, and
Frances Bible. Julius Rudel directed this LP,
which was recorded under the auspices of the
Koussevitzky Music Foundation. Should be a pop-
ular set with opera buffs.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
35
io Seek Dafe
C©-‘.''3i' Heg. M9r.
NEW YGIc’C — Eddie Matthews, newly
.-.ppointea ni.inag'er of Date Records,
has announced plans to travel to the
VVest Coast early in Jan. in order to
interview possible candidates for the
post of West Coast regional manager
of the firm.
The conclusion of 1966 finds Date
in high gear, according to Matthews,
who foresees an even greater year
in 1967. Date is currently clicking
with the Peaches & Herb single,
“Let’s Fall In Love,” which was a hit
R&B record and is now making noise
in the pop field. Another Date group,
the Arbors, has also made a name for
itself with its recent “Symphony For
Susan” single and LP offering.
Matthews has also indicated that
the label has just acquired two more
singles masters, which will be re-
leased later this month.
Date is distributed nationally by
Columbia, and, beginning Dec. 27, the
entire Date executive and field staff
will call on each of the Columbia dis-
tributors to personally greet them and
thank them for a job well done.
Cameo/Parkway Scoring Big
With 'Sen. Bobby' Single
NEW YORK— As Sen. Everett Mc-
Kinley Dirkson continues to romp up
the singles and album charts with his
tale of “Gallant Men” on Capitol,
another Congressional figure. Sen.
Bobby is straining at the bit, ready
to lend his name to posterity with
his “Wild Thing” single on Parkwav.
The single, a brainchild of comedy
producers Chip Taylor and Dennis
Wholey, is an uproarious spoof which
has reportedly reached 75.000 sales
in the first week of release. Both sides
of the record feature the same tune,
the top side as handled by “Sen.
Bobby” and the flip in the hands of
“Sen. Everett McKinley,” two char-
acters from the fertile minds of
Taylor and Wholey. Sen. Bobby, a
takeoff on Sen. Robert Kennedy, is
portrayed on the single by Bill
Minkin, with Steve Baron and Dennis
Wholey as minor characters.
The cast is part of a group called
the Hardly- Worthit Players, who re-
cently released a Parkway LP, also
a Taylor-Wholey production, called
“The Hardly- Worthit Report. Cameo/
Parkway sales manager Neil Bogart
indicated that the LP is being re-
mastered to include the new single.
Special display units, window stream-
ers, counter cards, hang tags and di-
rect mail stuffer inserts are now
being rushed to distributors. Bogart
revealed that he placed an initial
pressing order of 50,000 on the LP.
Disney Memorial
To Benefit Cal-Arts
NEW YORK— Walt Disney Music in
conjunction with Buena Vista Records
is releasing a commemorative LP en-
titled, “The Music Of Walt Disney.”
The album, which is scheduled for re-
lease early in Jan., will be a non-
commercial set with all royalties and
profits from its manufactui-e being
donated to the California Institute of
Arts. In order that Cal-Arts might
receive a gi-eater benefit from the
sale of the Disney package, all
production costs are being absorbed
by Walt Disney Music.
The album will contain music from
Disney productions of the past 30-
years.
The late Mr. Disney had always
been partial to Cal-Arts, which is an
internationally oriented school leaning
heavily on the graphic and lively
arts.
ASCAP's New Writer Deal
Ups Membership Roster
NEW YORK— In the last four
months of 1966, about 25% more
writers joined the American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP) than in the same four
month period of 1965 and 1964.
This significant increase is attrib-
uted to the new program of royalty
distribution inaugurated by ASCAP
last September. The management ex-
ecutive in charge of the Society’s
survey and distribution, Paul Marks,
in commenting about this increase,
noted: “Most of our new writers have
indicated great interest in the provi-
sions of the new system which permit
them to receive royalty payments
based upon current performances in
the first few years of their member-
ship, with the opportunity at a later
date (at their option) to switch over
to the system in which they average
their performances.”
The changes under the new plan
call for quicker payments to writers
and publishers, and also make it pos-
sible for the Society to give advances
to writers against future royalties
based on evidence of current activity.
Marks also pointed out that many
writers and music publishers not
affiliated with the Society have been
reviewing their performance royalty
situation and have been inquiring
about how they would fare as mem-
bers of the Society.
Among ASCAP’s newly elected
writer members are such well-known
performers as Barbra Streisand, Don
Ho and Jeri Southern, among others.
The new plan for payment of per-
formance fees has been in operation
since last September 12, when it was
approved by Chief Judge Sylvester
Ryan of the Federal Court in New
York, following a hearing on the mat-
ter.
WINDOW ON UA — The two windows above are the World
Of Music (left) and Sam Goody (right) both of New York City. Included
among the featured albums on display, are soundtracks from “Hawaii,” “A
Man And A Woman,” and “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The
Forum.
ixmdaJuC Area Code 615-244-1867
RECORD PRESSING COMPANY, Inc.
Your Standard of Comparison.
415 FOURTH AVE., SO. NASHVILLE, TENN. 37207
/ii/ll
TOP lOO LABELS
ABC Paramount
A & M 23, 57,
Atlantic 18, 28, 65, 90,
Bang
Barry
Bell
Brunswick 31, 71
B. T. Puppy
Calla
Cameo
Capitol . . 6, 27, 37, 48, 50, 54, 67,
Checker
Colgems 1 ,
Columbia 14, 55,
Diol
Diamond . .
Dunhill . . . .
Dyno Voice
86
100
95
40
100
45
76
59
88
22
96
47
25
72
58
17
16
75
Epic
4, 9, 35, 85
Fontana . . . .
Four Corners
Fraternity . . .
GNP
Gordy 12, 19,
Imperial 33,
Kama Sutra 38, 52,
Kapp 11, 60,
2
81
99
77
41
70
68
97
lijlltiilllill! !!!!!, 'i't 'i': !, i’:' illllli' li'iJ ,:'i lil-:!' I':; lUlllllllli
Laurie 3
Liberty 42
London 100
Lucky Eleven 46
Mala 63
Mercury 39, 51
MGM 15, 20, 36, 53, 61, 80
Monument 93
Motown 30
Musicor 83
New Voice 13
Original Sound 21
Parlow 8
Parrot 79
Philips 24, 56, 94
RCA Victor 91
Reprise 5, 7, 64, 78, 89
Roulette 34
Scepter 62
Shout 74
Smash 84
Stax 43, 73
Soul 26
Tamla 10, 44
Tico 98
United Artists 66
U.S.A 82
Valiant 32
Verve 92
Volt 29
Warner Bros 49
Burton Dinner Is
'66 Tax Deduction
NEW YORK — The Friends of Robert
J. Burton, an informal, all-industry
committee now engaged in a cam-
paign to establish a Burton Memorial
Fellowship at Columbia University,
has stressed the importance of the
timing of gifts to the drive in order
to take maximum advantage of tax
considerations.
Although the dinner dance, the pro-
ceeds of which will be used in setting
up the Burton Fellowship for study
and research in copyright law, will
not be held until March 21, it was
noted that contributions for places or
tables at the affair, extended now,
would be deductible against taxes de-
clared for the current year.
For those many firms or individuals
who have enjoyed a good year of
profits in 1966, the advantages of
making the contribution of $50 per
plate or $500 per table of 10, before
December 31, are obvious. According
to the committee, seventy per cent of
each subscription is tax deductible.
“We know,” said Morris Levy, com-
mittee chairman, “that most of the
responsible people in our industry,
with an awareness of its needs, are
going to get behind this tremendously
worthy affair. It’s obvious that the
sooner the pledges and checks are
received, the sooner we can be sure
Sylvia Telles Dies
NEW YORK — Sylvia Telles, one of
Brazil’s most popular singers, was
killed last week in an automobile
crash. At press time only sparse de-
tails were available, but reports in-
dicated that the accident occured on
the European continent.
The artist was associated with
Kapp Records in the United States.
Her first album here “Sylvia Telles
Sings The Wonderful Songs Of An-
tonio Carlos Jobim,” was released by
Kapp in 1965, followed by “The Face
I Love” in Oct. 1966.
of the success of our drive to reach
the $100,000 we need to establish the
Fellowship. But each company or indi-
vidual should make his own decision
as regards getting the maximum tax
advantages of the gift.”
The dinner dance, being planned for
2,000 guests, will be held in the Im-
perial Ballroom of The Hotel Ameri-
cana on Tuesday evening, March 21.
All-star entertainment will be pro-
vided. A full house will realize the
goal of $100,000 sufficient to establish
the self-perpetuating fund. Interest
from the fund will be used to finance
the education of a worthy student
engaged in the study of copyright, or
other law affecting the arts. Thus the
recipient will be helping to memorial-
ize the vast contributions made to this
field by the late Judge Burton.
UPCOMING EVENTS
A Schedule of Major Industry Cvenis In the Coming Months
EVENT
SAN REMO FESTIVAL
DATE
JAN. 26-28
PLACE
SAN REMO, ITALY
MIDEM (INT'L RECORD
& MUSIC PUBLISHING
MARKET)
JAN. 30-FEB. 4
PALACE DES FESTIVALS.
CANNES, FRANCE
NARM (RACK JOBBER)
CONVENTION
MAR. 5-10
CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL, LOS
ANGELES
NARAS GRAMMY AWARDS
MAR. 2
NEW YORK, CHICAGO, LOS
ANGELES. NASHVILLE
FRIENDS OF BOB BURTON
DINNER-DANCE
MAR 21
AMERICANA HOTEL, N.Y.
NAB (BROADCASTERS)
CONVENTION
APRIL 2-5
CONRAD HILTON HOTEL.
CHICAGO
COUNTRY MUSIC WEEK
OCT. 19-21
NASHVILLE, TENN.
36
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
3 .
13
M i
16
3 ‘
I
0 ,
3
)
1
I
ANNOUNCEMENT:
I ■ "
TO THE MUSIC AND RECORD INDUSTRY
BUENA VISTA RECORDS will release early in January,
a commemorative record album “THE MUSIC OF WALT
DISNEY.” This album will contain music from Walt Dis-
ney Productions over the past 30 years, from “Snow White”
to “Mary Poppins.” Most of this material will be from orig-
inal sound tracks including 3 Academy Award winning
songs.
This album is a non-commercial special release. Royalties
and profits from its manufacture are being donated to the
California Institute of Arts.
The California Institute of Arts is a unique college, inter-
national in scope, where all the arts, design, theatre, motion
pictures, fine arts and music flourish together. Walt Disney
" has said of Cal-Arts “It’s the principle thing I hope to leave
- when I move on to greener pastures. If I can provide a
place to develop talent for the future, I think I will have
f accomplished something.”
A '
L
A
r
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
36A
2M/T^Ment Enter Working Agreement
-j Y ‘ — MGM Records and
!: .1' Tiber’s Trident Productions
a "• liti-phased working agree-
.,T£T;i, on Jan. 2.
Under the terms of the pact, MGM
will release Werber’s production ef-
forts for one year, and will market
such product under the Verve, as
well as other subsidiary labels.
More than just a standard inde-
pendent production deal, the merger
will, in effect, establish Trident as a
working adjunct to MGM’s west coast
A&R Department. MGM becomes one
of the first major labels to recognize
vast contributions to today’s pop
music market emanating from San
Francisco. Some of the artists already
signed include Blackburn and Snow,
The Mystery Trend, the Sons of
Champlin, Malachi, The Ensemble and
the Don Scaletta Trio.
In commenting on the pact with
Trident Productions, Mort Nasatir,
MGM president, said, ‘‘the vast back-
ground and knowledge contributed by
Frank Werber and his associates at
Trident, will broaden Verve product
representation in the overall market.”
Werber, who discovered the King-
ston Trio and promoted them from an
off-campus trio into one of the most
successful singing groups in the world,
stated that a survey in depth of the
Bay Area disclosed that San Fran-
cisco, which has always been a center
for creative people, is fast becoming
established as the capital of the new
wave of music being recorded today.
“The Trident setup,” said Werber,
“with its organization, high quality
recoi’ding studio facilities, talent man-
agement and development division,
publishing companies, promotion and
art departments all located under one
roof in historic Columbus Tower, made
this an ideal merger of intei’ests for
us.”
Werber, emphasizing the fact that
the new setup would not be interested
in any “quick-lived fad,” declared that
his involvement will not be solely con-
cerned with the singles market group
sound.
“We intend to delve into all aspects
of music available in this area,”
Werber said, “and this includes new
forms of jazz, psychedelic sounds and
1 the new emergence of holy music.”
Fradkin To Head Heliodor
NEW YORK— Philip Fradkin has
been appointed to the position of
supervisor of Heliodor Records,
MGM’s budget classical line, by the
PHILIP FRADKIN
company’s classical division chief
Jerry Schoenbaum. He succeeds
Richard de Costa, supervisor since
the label’s inception, who has just left
to become the manager of the Ameri-
can Wind Symphony Orchestra.
Fradkin has most recently served
in the position of assistant musical
director with Westminster Records.
Goldsboro Recuperating;
No Date Changes Planned
NEW YORK — United Artists’ Bobby
Goldsboro took an enforced rest last
week when a strep throat landed him
in a hospital in his home town of
Dothan, Ala.
Goldsboro is reportedly responding
well to treatment and is expected to
be back in action well before his
scheduled engagements next month in
Europe. His dates there include his
debut at the San Remo Song Festival
preceeded by TV spots in England
and France.
Goldsboro is currently represented
on the Top 100 with “Blue Autumn.”
Hirt Buys Into Saints
NEW YORK— A1 Hirt has bought
into the National Football League’s
latest franchise, the New Orleans
Saints. He has been actively con-
cerned for several years with bring-
ing a professional football team to his
home state. The club will begin opera-
tion in the fall of ’67 and will use
the Tulane Univ. “Sugar Bowl Sta-
dium” until its own $30 million
“Superdome” is completed. It is un-
derstood that the RCA Victor artist
will help to promote the team.
Music Boom
(Continued from page 7)
000 each) and recorder (750,000).
j Making music ranked second only
j to reading among the country’s leisure
I activities. One out of every 4.5 Ameri-
I cans, 4 years old or more, played an
instrument or received musical in-
i struction.
I Significant in the musical boom was
the steady growth of the community
orchestra. Of our 1,385 symphony
orchestra, the vast majority, 1,033
1 was made up of community groups.
I Almost 90% of the musicians in these
i orchestras were amateurs.
! About 10 years ago, there were only
I 650 community orchestras; 40 years
ago, there were fewer than 100.
With more than 242,000,000 radios
in operation, the average adult Ameri-
can listens about 16 hours per week
I to radio programing, of which rougly
I 80% comes from records. New tech-
I nical and legal developments — FM
stereo, color and mandatory inclusion
of UHF tuners in all new television
sets — are encouraging construction of
FM and educational television sta-
tions, among the major disseminators
of concert music.
Fred Foster Sound Studios
Build 8-Track Facilities
NASHVILLE— Fred Foster Sound
Studios has installed Nashville’s first
eight-track recording facilities. The
unit was built by Minnesota Mining
and Manufacturing, St. Paul, Minne-
sota, under the direction of Scotty
Lyall, chief engineer of the Profes-
sional Products division.
Although Fred Foster, president of
the Studios, has announced plans for
a new recording facility to be built
here in 1967, he said he plans to con-
tinue operation of the present studio.
Foster reported that he has already
installed a new four-track Scully and
that existing equipment has been com-
pletely up-dated.
The staff was recently increased to
four full-time engineers with the ad-
dition of Mort Thomasson and Bob
Farris. Thomas Strong and Brent
Maher round out the engineering
team.
RCA Victor Inks Simone
NEW’ YORK — Nina Simone has been
signed to a long-term exclusive re-
cording contract by RCA Victor Rec-
ords. ’I’he announcement came recent-
ly from Ernie Altschuler, division
vice president and executive producer,
who has assigned Danny Davis to
produce the artist’s recordings.
The thrush came to the RCA Victor
studios recently for a pair of record-
ing sessions, and her first single for
the label will be released shortly. In
April of 1967, she will embark on her
third European tour, with perform-
ances scheduled in London, Amster-
dam and Antibes. She will also make
TV appearances in Spain as well as
on Eurovision. Prior to her departure
for Europe, she will play three weeks
at the 'Troubadour in Los Angeles
(opening Jan. 17), a month at the
Hungry i in San Francisco (opening
Feb. 13) plus several college concert
dates. In Jan. she also plays the Vil-
lage Gate in New York on the week-
ends of Jan. 6 and Jan. 13.
Peer-Southern Plans
To Promote The Cumbias
NEW YORK — Peer-Southern Music’s
Latin Division has planned a large-
scale program to promote a new
dance rhythm, the cumbias, in 196'7.
The cumbias, although originating in
Columbia, has become extremely pop-
ular in Mexico. Peer Southern plans
to introduce the dance to the U.S.
with the new Tico LP, “Cumbias A
Go Go,” recorded by Roberto Ferrer,
an American artist now on tour in
Latin America where he has appeared
at the Panama Hilton in Panama and
on TV in Costa Rica.
Peer-Southern has also been in-
strumental in introducing via its
copyrights such dances and rhythms
as the rhumba, samba, mambo, cha
cha, merengue and most recently the
jequibau and are planning to repeat
with the cumbias.
Atlantic's Best Year
(Continued from page 7)
and was active on the LP front with a
score of chart sets. The company also
got busy on the future with the long
term signings of a host of pop, r&b
and jazz artists and increased its
international activities with the sign-
ing of many new licensees.
Singles
On the singles scene Atlantic burst
through in the spring with two No. 1
records. One was a million-seller with
a brand new artist, Percy Sledge titled
“When A Man Loves A Woman” which
Sledge followed that up with two
more hits, “Warm And Tender Love,”
and “It Tears Me Up.” The Young
Rascals had the other No. 1 item:
“Good Lovin’.” Atco Records had a
No. 1 chart disk. The Troggs’ “Wild
Thing,” which helped introduce the
English group to U.S. audiences. The
group had two other hits in 1966, “I
Can’t Control Myself” and “With A
Girl Like You.”
Bobby Darin came through with a
big item for Atlantic with “If I Were
A Carpenter,” and Sonny & Cher
nailed down another hit on Atco with
“Little Man.” Wilson Pickett scored
with four chart-busters, including
“Mustang Sally,” “Land Of 1000
Dances,” “Ninety-Nine And A Half
Won’t Do,” and “Don’t Fight It.”
Barbara Lewis went up the charts
with “Make Me Belong To You,” while
Mary Wells had a big one with “Dear
Lover.”
Hits on the Karen and Carla labels
included Deon Jackson’s “Love Makes
The World Go Round,” and the Capi-
tols’ “Cool Jerk.” Joe Tex kept his
Dial Records’ string intact with five
hits including “A Sweet Woman Like
You,” “S.Y.S.L.J.F.M.,” “I Believe I’m
Gonna Make It,” “I’ve Got To Do A
Little Bit Better,” and “Papa Was
Too.” The Shadows of Knight scored
solidly with “Gloria” on the Dunwich
label, and Jimmy Hughes had a strong
seller with “Neighbor, Neighbor” on
Fame.
On Stax and Volt there were hits
aplenty. They included Carla Thomas’
“B-A-B-Y,” Eddie Floyd’s “Knock On
Wood,” Sam & Dave’s “Hold On, I’m
Cornin’,” The Mar-Keys’ “Philly Dog,”
and four Otis Redding hits, “A Lover’s
Prayer,” “Satisfaction,” “Fa-Fa-Fa-
Fa-Fa,” and “Try A Little Tender-
ness.”
Albums
Atlantic-Atco album sales reported-
ly increased by 100 per cent in 1966
over 1965. Sales were sparked by “The
Wondrous World Of Sonny & Cher,”
and their previous Atco LP, “Look At
Us.” The Young Rascals had a smash
Atlantic LP, “The Young Rascals,”
and Percy Sledge had two hot items
“When A Man Loves A Woman,” and
“Warm And Tender Soul.” “The Ex-
citing Wilson Pickett,” Joe Tex’s “The
Love You Save” and “I’ve Got To Do
A Little Bit Better,” “Solid Gold
Soul,” and Bobby Darin’s “If I Were
A Carpenter” were all solid sellers.
“Wild 'fhing” by The Troggs on Atco,
“Gloria” by The Shadows of Knight on
Dunwich and “The Best Of The
Righteous Brothers” on Moonglow, all
were chart LP’s
Best selling jazz LP’s on Atlantic
included sets by Herbie Mann, Charles
Lloyd, Brother Jack McDuff, Sergio
Mendes and the Modern Jazz Quartet.
On Stax and Volt the top sellers
included three Otis Redding LP’s:
“Dictionary Of Soul,” “The Soul
Album,” and “Otis Blue”; Sam &
Dave’s “Hold On I’m Cornin’ ”; and
Carla Thomas’ “Carla.”
New Signings
Atlantic-Atco signed long term, ex-
clusive contracts with a number of
artists during 1966. Among the jazz
artists who joined the label were:
Charles Lloyd, Jack McDuff, Shelley
Manne, Freddie Hubbard, Robin Keny-
atta. Chick Corea and Junior Mance.
Aptha Franklin was signed to At-
lantic with her first release set for
early 1967. Other artists who joined
Atlantic in 1966 included Keely Smith,
Dee Dee Sharp, The Bitter End
Singers, Tamiko Jones, Charlie
Brown’s Generation, The Buffalo
Springfield and The Washington
Square Stompers. Herbie Mann, a
star on Atlantic for the past five
years, signed a new long-term agree-
ment with the company. Through
Atlantic’s French affiliate Barclay,
Atlantic secured the rights to distrib-
ute recordings in the United States by
Mireille Mathieu. The company also
made arrangements to handle distri-
bution of Willie Barney’s Bright Star
and Four Brothers labels and George
Tobin’s Brahma label.
In February of 1966 Atlantic con-
cluded a contract with the RCA Victor
Record Club which enabled the club
to make available to its members
Atlantic and Atco LP’s, and Stax,
Volt, Dial and Focus LP’s for which
Atlantic has the distribution rights.
Foreign Sales
Atlantic’s foreign sales underwent
an expansion in 1966 aided by pro-
motional tours overseas of many
Atlantic artists and the appointment
of a number of new foreign licensees
to handle the Atlantic labels. Sonny
& Cher made a 1 month long tour of
Europe. Wilson Pickett, Bobby Darin,
Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, Charles
Lloyd, Otis Redding, Junior Wells,
Leslie Uggams and the Young Rascals
also made successful overseas tours in
1966.
New licensees for Atlantic product
appointed in 1966 by Nesuhl Ertegun,
Atlantic vice-president and director
of International Operations, included
Polydor Records for England, Quality
Records for Canada, Barclay Records
for Belgium and Switzerland, Polydor
Records for Mexico, Brazil, Peru,
Columbia and Chile, Polydor Records
for Holland and Teal Records for
South Africa.
36u
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
Ga^ itox
TOP 100 Albums
DECEMBER 31, 1966
THE MONKEES
(Colgems COM/COS 101)
Po5. Last Week
1
25
2
S.R.O.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
(A&M LP 119 /SP 4119)
2
26
3
DR. ZHIVAGO
Soundtrack (MGM E/SE 6 ST)
3
•
4
JE M'APPELLE BARBRA
Barbra Streisand
(Columbia CL 2547/CS 9347)
4
28
5
GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT
5
Rolling Stones (London LL 3493 /PS
493)
29
6
PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY &
THYME
Simon & Garfunkel
(Columbia CL 2563/CS 9363)
6
•
SOUND OF MUSIC
8
31
Soundtrack (RCA Victor LOCD/LSOD 2005)
•
BORN FREE
9
32
Roger Williams (Kapp KL 1501/KS 3501)
33
■1
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
New Vaudeville Band
(Fontana MGF 27560/SRF 67560)
11
34
1 ,1. 10
WHAT NOW MY LOVE
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
(A & M LP 114/SP 4114}
7
35
i ll
i I
SUPREMES A GO-GO
(Motown M/S 649)
10
•
;
HUMS OF THE LOVIN'
SPOONFUL
(Kama Sutra KLP/KLPS 8054)
14
37
i.| 13
SOMEWHERE MY LOVE
Ray Conniff Singers
(Columbia CL 2519 /CS 9319)
13
38
14
THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS
(Dunhill D/DS 50010)
15
39
15
GOING PLACES
17
1
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
(A & M LP 112 /SP 4112)
40
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
Lawrence Welk
(Dot DLP 3774/DLP 25774)
25
41
•
THE BEST OF HERMAN'S
HERMITS, VOL. 2
(MGM E/SE 4416)
21
•
; 18
THE WILD ANGELS
Soundtrack (Tower T/ST 5043)
18
43
19
SPINOUT
19
Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3702)
44
•
DEAN MARTIN TV SHOW
(Reprise R/RS 6233 /RS 6233)
23
45
21
2nd GOLD VAULT OF HITS
Four Seasons
(Philips PHM 200-221/PHS 600-221)
22
46
22
WONDERFULNESS
20
1
Bill Cosby (Warner Bros. W/WS 1634)
47
' 23
ii
GOLDEN GREATS OF GARY
LEWIS
(Uberty LRP 3468/LST 7468)
16 )
j
48
ji
THE TEMPTATIONS GREATEST
HITS
(Gordy GLP/SLP 919)
3’
49
101
SPAGHETTI SAUCE AND OTHER
DELIGHTS
110
102
Pat Cooper
(United Artists UAL 3548//UAS 6548)
SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR TITLE
111
Jim Kwesken & Jug Band
(Vanguard VRS 9234/VSD 79234)
112
, 103
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE — BANG
BANG
113
Joe Cuba Sextet (Tico 1146)
1 104
WILD THINGS
Ventures (Dolton BLP 2047/BST 8047)
114
i 105
COMMAND PERFORMANCE
Doc Severinson (Command 904)
115
, 106
YOU ASKED FOR IT
Ferrante & Teicher
116
)
' 107
1
(United Artists UAL 3526/UAS 6526)
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Jack Jones (Kapp KL 1486/KS 3486)
117
00
o
WHISPERS
Jackie Wilson
(Brunswick DLM 54122/DLS 754122)
118
1 1
VINTAGE STOCK
Mary Wells (Motown 653)
119
WHIPPED CREAM AND
OTHER DELIGHTS
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
(A & M LP/SP 110)
Pos. Last Week
26
SERGIO MENDES &
BRASIL '66
(A i M LP 116/SP 4116)
THAT'S LIFE
Frank Sinatra (Reprise F/FS 1020)
BORN FREE
Soundtrack (MGM B/SC 4368)
LOU RAWLS SOULIN'
(Capitol T/ST 2566)
FOUR TOPS LIVE!
(Motown MLP/SLP 654)
ANIMALISM
The Animals (MGM E/SB 4414)
GUANTANAMERA
Sandpipers (A&M LP 177 /SP 4177)
96 TEARS
? Question Mark & Mysterians
(Cameo C/CS 2004)
12
53
29
24
59
32
27
34
50
51
52
MORE GREAT HITS
Dave Clark Five
(Epic LN 24221 /BN 26221)
Pos. Lest Week
51
BERT KAEMPFERT'S
GREATEST HITS
(Decca DLM 4810/DLS 74810)
52
MAN OF LA MANCHA
56
Original Cast (Kapp KRL 4505 /KRS 5505)
AWAY WE GO GO 63
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
(Tamla TLP/SLP 271)
REVOLVER
Beatles (Capitol T/ST 2576)
WATCH OUT
Baja Marimba Band
(A&M LP nS/SP 4118)
28
33
RHAPSODIES FOR YOUNG
LOVERS 50
Midnight String Quartet (Viva V/VS 6001)
JIM NABORS SINGS LOVE ME
WITH ALL YOUR HEART
(Columbia CL 2SS8/CS 9358)
JACK JONES SINGS
(Kapp KL 1500/KS 3500)
A TIME FOR LOVE
Tony Bennett
(Columbia CL 2569/CS 9369)
36
40
39
CABARET
Original Cast
(Columbia KOS 3040/KOL 6640)
75
55
56
GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIMES 60
Gene Pitney (Musicor AIM 2102/MS 3102)
PSYCHEDELIC LOLLIPOP
Blues Magoos
(Mercury MG 21096/SR 61096)
61
57
58
59
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
Frank Sinatra (Reprita F/FS 1017)
65
THIS IS LOVE
Al Martino (Capitol T/TS 2592)
16 BIG HITS, VOL. #5
(Motown M/S 651)
44
37
FACE TO FACE
Kinks (Reprise R/RS 6228)
71
61
TERRY KNIGHT AND
THE PACK
(Lucky Eleven LE/SLE 8000)
CHANGES
Johnny Rivers
(Imperial LPM 9334/LPS 12334)
62
76
MR. MUSIC
Mantovani (London LL 3474/PS 474)
MAME
Original Cast
(Columbia KOL 6600/KOS 3000)
41
43
SPIRIT OF '67
Paul Revere & The Raiders
(Columbia CL 2595/CS 9395)
55
JOHNNY RIVERS GOLDEN
HITS
(Imperial LPM 9324/LPS 12324)
35
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
45
Original Cast (RCA Victor LOC/LSO 1093)
49
A MAN AND A WOMAN
Soundtrack
(United Artists UAL 4147 /U AS 5147)
RAIN FOREST 38
Walter Wanderly (Verva V/V-6 8658)
BEST OF THE LETTERMEN
(Capitol T/ST 2554)
LOU RAWLS LIVE
(Capitol T/ST 2459)
SO NICE
Johnny Mathis
(Mercury MG 21091/SR 61091)
30
42
46
63
64
NOEL
Joan Baez
(Vanguard VRS 9230/VSD 79230)
66
THE TIME OF MY LIFE
John Davidson
(Columbia CL 2580/CS 9380)
47
65
66
TRINI LOPEZ GREATEST HITS 57
(Reprise R/RS 6226)
THE NEW FIRST FAMILY
Bob Booker & George Foster
(Verve V/V6-15054)
69
67
68
69
70
71
72
EAST-WEST
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
(Elektra ELK 315/EKS 7315)
68
HAWAII
Soundtrack
(United Artists UAL 4143/UAS 5143)
67
BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE
AND GREEN GRASS) 65
Rolling Stones (London NP-1 /NPS-1)
GAMES THAT LOVERS PLAY 72
Eddie Fisher
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3726)
IN MY LIFE
Judy Collins
(Elektra ELK 320/EKS 7320)
79
PROJECTIONS
Blues Project
(Verve Folkways FT/FTS 3008)
78
GALLANT MEN
Senator Everett Dirksen
(Capitol S/ST 2634)
88
RENAISSANCE
Association (Valiant VLM/VLS S004)
113
75
76
77
48
81
78
79
81
82
83
84
Pos. Lest Week
AND THEN . . . ALONG
COMES THE ASSOCIATION
(Valiant VLM/VLS 5002)
TINY BUBBLES
Don Ho (Reprise R/RS 6232)
BILL COSBY IS A VERY
FUNNY FELLOW, RIGHT!
(Warner Bros. W/WS 1518)
aftermath
Rolling Stones (London LL 3476 /PS 476)
COMING ON STRONG 85
Brenda Lee (Decca DL 4825/DLS 74825)
SIDE BY SIDE 94
Sandler & Young (Capitol T/ST 2598)
WHY IS THERE AIR? 86
Bill Cosby (Warner Bros. W/WS 1606)
77
54
BORN A WOMAN
Sandy Posey (MGM-E 4418)
TIME AFTER TIME
Chris Montez (A&M LP 120/SP 4120)
BREAK OUT
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
(New Voice M/S 2002)
83
90
87
LOOKING BACK
Four Seasons
(Philips PHM 200-222/PHS 600-222)
95
MUSIC OF HAWAII
Henry Mancini
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3713)
103
87
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN 72
Donovan (Epic LN 24217/BN 26217)
I DO! I DO!
Original Broadway Cast
(RCA Victor LOC/LSO 1218)
89
90
91
92
93
WORDS AND MUSIC '
Roger Miller
(Smash MGS 27075/SRS 67075)
73
LONELY BULL
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
(A&M LP/SP 101)
84
ART LINKLETTER NARRATES
THE BIBLE 97
(20th Century Fox M/S 3187)
ALFIE
Billy Vaughn
(Dot DLP 3751 /DLP 25751)
WISH ME A RAINBOW
Gunter Kallmann
(4 Corners SCL/SCS 4235)
111
101
94
95
COLLECTIONS
Young Rascals (Atlantic M/5 8134)
BIBLE
Soundtrack (20th Century Fox TFM
3184/TFS 4184) :
93
96
97
BROADWAY BASIE'S WAY
(Command RS/SD 905)
89
98
99
100
BUDDY RICH; SWINGIN' '
NEW BIG BAND
(Pacific Jazz PJ 10113/ST 20113)
SINATRA AT THE SANDS
(Reprise 2F/2FS 1019) ,
102
64
THE APPLE TREE
Original Cast
(Columbia KOL 6620/KOS 3020)
100
MINE EYES HAVE SEEN
THE GLORY 99
Anita Bryant (Columbia CL 2573/CS 9373)
THE SEEDS
(Crescendo GNP/GNPS 2023)
HERE WHERE THERE IS LOVE
Dionne Warwick (Scepter SRM/STS 555)
IF I WERE A CARPENTER
Bobby Darin (Atlantic M/S 8135)
LATIN PULSE
Nancy Ames (Epic LN 241 89/ BN 26189)
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
(A&M LP/SP 108)
BEST OF DEAN MARTIN
(CapHol T/ST 2601)
WARM AND TENDER SOUL
Percy Sledge (Atlantic LP/SD 8132)
JAY AND THE AMERICANS
GREATEST HITS, VOL. 2
(United Artists UAL 3S5S/UAS 6555)
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
The Palm Beach Band Boys
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3734)
LARA'S THEME
Brass Ring (Dunhill D/DS 50012)
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
SOMEBODY LIKE ME
Eddy Arnold
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3715)
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S GOLDEN
Philips PHM 220-220/PHS 600-220)
HI HO EVERYBODY
Rudy Vallee (Viva 6005/36005)
THE EXCITING WILSON PtCKETT
(Atlantic 8129/SD 8129)
HOW SWEET IT IS
Jackie Gleason (Capitol SW 2583)
HITS
131
132
133
134
FROM NASHVILLE WITH LOVE
Chet Atkins (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3647)
GO AHEAD AND CRY
Righteous Bros. (Verve V/V-6 5004)
DICTIONARY OF SOUL
Otis Redding (Volt M/S 415)
MORE I CANNOT WISH YOU
Ed Ames (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3636)
PERRY COMO IN ITALY
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3608)
GLEN YARBROUGH LIVE AT THE
HUNGRY I
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3661)
YOU AIN'T WOMAN ENOUGH
Loretta Lynn (Decca/DL 4783/DL 478)
PSYCHOTIC REACTION
Count Five (Double Shot DSM-1001)
A HEART FILLED WITH SONG
John Gary (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3666)
BEATLE COUNTRY
Charles River Valley Boys
(Elektra EKL 4006 /EKS 74006)
135
136
137
138
139
KINK'S GREATEST HITS
(Reprise R/RC 6217)
IS PARIS BURNING
Soundtrack (Columbia OL 6630/OS 3030)
PETER, PAUL & MARY ALBUM
(Warner Bros. W/WS 1648)
140
SWEET PEA
Tommy Roe (ABC Paramount M/S 575)
ROUGH 'N' TUMBLE
Stanley Turrentins
(Bluenote BLP 4240/BST 84240)
CARLA
Carla Thomas (Stax 709/SD 709)
COMPILED BY CASH BOX FROM LEADING RETAIL OUTLETS • Indicotes Strong Upword Mere
ALBUM INVENTORY ;
A check list of best selling pop albums other than those appearing on the CASH BOX Top 100 Album chart. Feature is designed to call wholesalers’ & retailers’ attention i
to key catalog, top steady selling LP’s, as well as recent chart hits still going strong in sales. Information is supplied by manufacturers. This is a weekly, revolving i
list presented in alphabetical order. It Is advised that this card be kept untii the list returns to this alphabetical section. '
TOWER
Dick Curless
A Tombstone Every Mile
ST5005/T5005
Dean Martm
The Lush Years
ST5006/T5006
Justin Wilson
1 Gawr-on-tee
W5008
Justin Wilson
Wilsonville U.S. And A
W5009
Justin Wilson
The “Wondermus" Humor of
W5010
Justin Wilson
“Me, 1 got a Frien’ ”
W5011
Justin Wilson
Whoooo Boy
W5039
Dick Curless
The Soul of Dick Curless
T5013/ST5013
Dick Curless
Travelin' Man
T5015/ST5015
Dean Martin
Relaxin’
T5018/ST5018
Dick Curless &
A Devil Like Me Needs
T5025/ST5025
Kay Adams
an Angel Like You
The Standells
Dirty Water
T5027/ST5027
Mae West
Way Out West
T5028/ST5028
Maika & Joso
Jewish Songs
T5032/ST5032
Kay Adams
Wheels & Tears
T5033/ST5033
Dean Martin
Happy In Love
T5036/ST5036
The Louvin Brothers
Two Different Worlds
T5038/ST5038
Various
The Canticle of the Gift
T5040/ST5040
Ian Whitcomb
Ian Whitcomb’s Mod Mod Music Hall
T5042/ST5042
Various
The Wild Angels
T5043/ST5043
Standells
Why Pick On Me
T5044/ST5044
Various
Country Opera
Legend Of Johnny Brown
T5045/ST5045
Beatles
Marching With The Beatles
T5046/ST5046
Walter Wanderly
From Rio With Love
T5047/ST5047
The Crusaders
Make A Joyful Noise With
Drums and Guitars
T5048'ST5048
UNITED ARTISTS
Jay And The Americans
Jay And The Americans Greatest Hits
3453
6453
Del Reeves
Gettin’ Any Feed For Your Chickens
3530
6530
Original Soundtrack
Hawaii
4143
5143
Ferrante And Teicher
You Asked For It!
3526
6526
Original Soundtrack
A Funny Thing Happened On The
Way To The Forum
4144
5144
Jay And The Americans
Livin’ Above Your Head
3534
6534
Original Soundtrack
Return Of The Seven
4146
5146
Original Soundtrack
Goldfinger
4117
5117
The Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night
3366
6366
Various Artists
Music To Read James Bond By Vol. II
3541
6541
Shirley Bassey
Shirley Means Bassey
3545
6545
George Jones
George Jones’ Golden Hits
3532
6532
Jimmy Rosetli
The Italian Album
3544
6544
Al Caiola
Caiola Romantico
3527
6527
Ray Baretto
El ‘Ray’ Criollo
3543
6543
Original Soundtrack
Khartoum
4140
5140
Pat Cooper
Our Hero-Pat Cooper
3446
—
Jimmy Roselli
Right From The Heart
3529
6529
Jay And The Americans
Jay And The Americans Greatest Hits
Vol. II
3555
6555
Original Soundtrack
A Man And A Woman
4147
5147
George Martin
George Martin Instrumentally Salutes
The Beetle Girls
3539
6539
Pat Cooper
Spaghetti Sauce And Other Delights
3548
—
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann’s Greatest Hits
3551
6551
Bobby Goldsboro
Blue Autumn
3552
6552
Count Basie
Basie Meets Bond
3480
6480
Al Caiola
All Strung Out!
3553
6553
The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys At Their Best!
3554
6554
Lena Home
Lena InHollywood
3470
6470
Original Soundtrack
After The Fox
4148
5148
Patty Duke
Patty Duke’s Greatest Hits
3535
6535
VANGUARD '
«
Joan Baez
Farewell, Angelina
VRS-9200
VSD-79200
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Little Wheel, Spin and Spin
VRS-9211
VSD-79211
Joan Baez
Joan Baez/Five
VRS-9160
VSD-79160
Joan Baez
Joan Baez In Concert, Pt. 2
VRS-9113
VSD-2123
Joan Baez
Joan Baez In Concert
VRS-9112
VSD-2122
r
Joan Baez
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
VRS-9094
VSD-2097
1
Peter Schickele
An Hysteric Return Of P.D.Q. Bach
VRS-9223
VSD-79223
j
Jimmy Cotton Blues
Quartet & The Otis
Rush Blues Band
Chicago/The Blues/Today, Vol. 2
VRS-9217
VSD-79217
II
I
B
Johnny Young’s South
Side Blues Band
Chicago/The Blues/Today, Vol. 3
VRS-9218
VSD-79218
Junior Wells Chicago
Blues Band J. B.
Hutto And His Hawks
Chicago/The Blues/Today, Vol. 1
VRS-9216
VSD-79216
II
II
II
Patrick Sky
A Harvest Of Gentle Clang
VRS-9207
VSD-79207
Ian And Sylvia
Play One More
VRS-9215
VSD-79215
1
Ian And Sylvia
Early Morning Rain
VRS-9175
VSD-79175
I
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Many A Mile
VRS-9171
VSD-79171
II
Ian And Sylvia
Northern Journey
VRS-9154
VSD-79154
II
Sandy Bull
Inventions
VRS-9191
VSD-79191
E
Buffy Sainte-Marie
It’s My Way
VRS-9142
VSD-79142
Richard & Mimi Farina
Reflections In A Crystal Wind
VRS-9204
VSD-79204
Doc Watson
Southbound
VRS-9213
VSD-79213 ,
1
Jan Peerce
Neopolitan Songs
VRS-9210
VSD-79210
E
E
I
VERVE
Jimmy Smith
1 Got My Mojo Workin’
V/V6/8641
Wes Montgomery
Goin’ Out of My Head
V/V6/8642
Astrud Gilberto
Look to the Rainbow
V/V6/8643
Prysock/Basie
Arthur Prysock/Count Basie
V/V6/8646
Ella Fitzgerald
Mack The Knife-Ella In Berlin-La
Fitzgerald
VA6/4041
Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd
Bashin’-Jimmy Smith Plays "Walk On The
Wild Side’’
VA6/8432
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto
VA6/8545
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Composer Of Desafinado Antonio Carlos
Jobim, Plays
VA6/8547
Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill
Davis
Mess Of Blues
V/V6/8570
Cal Tjader
Breeze From The East
VA6/8575
Jimmy Smith
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
VA6/8583
Jimmy Smith
The Cat
V/V6/8587
Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill
Davis
Blue Rabbit
VA6/8599
Stan Getz With Astrud
Gilberto
Getz Au Go Go
V/V6/8600
Gary MacFarland
Soft Samba
VA6/8603
The Oscar Peterson Trio We Get Requests
VA6/8606
Astrud Gilberto
The Astrud Gilberto Album
VA6/9608
Wes Montgomery
Movin’ Wes
VA6/8610
Kenny Burrell/Gil Evans Guitar Forms
VA6/8612
Cal Tjader
Soul Sauce
VA6/8614
Jnnmy Smith
The Monster
V/V6/8618
Wes Montgomery
Bumpin’
VA6/8625
Astrud Gilberto
The Shadow Of Your Smile
VA6/8629
Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill
Davis
Wings & Things
VA6/8630
Willie Bobo
Spanish Grease
VA6/8631
Kai Winding
More!
VA6/8551
Wes Montgomery
Tequila
VA6/8653
Lalo Schifrin
Marquis De Sade
VA6/8654
Walter Wanderly
Rain Forest
VA6/8658
Count Basie
Basie’s Beatle Bag
VA6/8659
Jimmy Smith
Hoochie Cooche Man
V/V6/8667
Righteous Bros
Soul & Inspiration
VA6/5001
Righteous Bros
Go Ahead & Cry
VA6/5004
Mothers Of invention
Freak Out
VA6/5005-2
Single:
“The
Lonely
Bull”
5-10109
From the Epic album
Something New
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Albums:
LN 24206/ BN 26206
LN 24157/ BN 26157*
THE WORLD FAMOUS
GLENN
MILLER
ORCHESTRA
UNDER THE DlRECTtOM OF
RAYMcWNLEV WITH THE
MOONLIGHT SEPENAOERS
r GREAT
SONGS
OF THE 60’S
GLENN MILLER
TIME
LN 24133/ BN 26133*
s
t
I
!
I
II
I
i ,
I
I '
I
I
I
1
■<
1
I .
I ,
I
'■'Stereo
©“EPIC”, Marca Reg. T.M. PRINTED IN U.S.A.
t
W;\TeH OUTS
•FOR THE NS ] BEST NEIUCOMER BAND*
BAM MAfimU BAND
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
MERCURY’S TOYS — The latest acquisition to Mercury’s artist roster is the
Toys, primarily known for their while-back “Lover’s Concerto’’ and “Attack”
decks. The female trio was brought to Mercury by producer-arranger Alan
Lorber, who will supervise their sessions. Lorber and the Toy’s manager Vince
Marc negotiated the pact with Charlie Each, Mercury’s vice president and
director of recorded product. Pictured above (left to right) are: Barbara
Parrott, Bai’bara Hai'ris, ami June Monteiro (who comprise the Toys),
Charlie Fach, Felix ZifFer (the Toys’ attorney), Alan Lorber, and Vince Marc.
Western Union Singing
Telegrams Now On Disks
NEW YORK — A new singing dis-
covery, John Gorman, has been intro-
duced into the world of records and,
with ten disks already cut, his pro-
jected sales have been placed at
nearly a million a year by the label.
However, it’s highly improbable that
Gorman will ever receive a gold rec-
ord as a result of any of the ten sides
cut. The reason for this is that the
label, known as MelodyGram, is a
wing of Western Union and each of
the Gorman tracks is a different sing-
ing telegram. A unique social greet-
ing, MelodyGram combines a persona-
lized telegraphic message, a deluxe
greeting card and a Gorman record-
ing for play at SSVs rpm. In addition
to an original tune commissioned by
Western Union, and titled “I Want To
Communicate With You,” the record-
ings include “Happy Birthday,”
“Everything’s Coming Up Roses,”
“Little Boy Congratulations,” “Little
Girl Congratulations,” “Hello Dolly,”
“Love And Marriage,” “Anniversary
Waltz,” “Do I Love You” and “I Wish
You Love.”
MelodyGrams for immediate de-
livery coast-to-coast cost $3, while
those for next-day wire-mail delivery,
anywhere in the country, are $2.2.5.
Starnell Associates
Signs Tony Sara
NEW YORK — Starnell Associates,
New York based artists representa-
tives, is now embarked on what it
terms an “Open Door Policy” in the
signing of new talent for records, TV
and nightclubs. That policy, reports
the company, has already reaped re-
wards in the case of Tony Sara, a
singer-songwriter newcomer whose
first effort on the Starnell owned
Marney Records is “Love Sick Beg-
gar.” Sara is a recently returned
decorated combat veteran from Viet
Nam. Starnell chief Sidney Lucas,
says they also purchase independent
masters for their Marney label.
MEET ME IN —A musical
souvenir LP of St. Louis has just
been released by Norman Records.
The new album is entitled, “Meet Me
In St. Louis” and is dramatized in
three parts: the Riverfront, Down-
town, and Forest Park. The set was
produced by Norman Wienstroer and
the location recording was done by A1
Bussen of Technisonic Studios, St.
Louis. The accom photo above shows
Norman Wienstroer (left), president
of Norman Records, presenting the
first copy of the LP to A. J. Cervan-
tes, mayor of St. Louis. Robert
Hausfater (right) is prexy of Roberts
Distributing, the firm that will handle
distribution of the deck in the St.
Louis area.
Morris I. Auerbach Dies
NEW YORK— Morris 1. Auerbach
died last week in New York of a
heart attack. He was 60 years old.
He was in the music business for 40
years, and he owned Municipal Radio
in Brooklyn. He began his career in
radio research. His wife, Pauline, will
carry on the business.
Auerbach is survived by a son,
Richard, an electrical engineer, and a
daughter, Merle, a school teacher.
Capitol Booking
Books B. J. Thomas
NEW YORK— A B. J. Thomas ad on
page 35 of last week’s Year-End issue
contained an incorrect booking agent
for the performer. It should be Capi-
tol Booking Corp., 527 Madison Ave.,
New York. Telephone is (212) 421-
9.590.
How's Hawaii?
Elmer Bernstein, com-
poser and conductor of
many motion picture
soundtracks scores, stop-
ped by the New York
offices of United Artists
last week to check the
progress of his recently
released LP, “Hawaii.”
Bernstein did the score
for the UA flick, which
'tars Julie Andrews and
Max Von Sydow. Lloyd
Leipzig (left) UA’s di-
rector of creative ser-
vices, and his assistant,
Bill Persch (right) flank
the composer.
Fowley Returns To Coast
HOLLYWOOD — Kim Fowley, London
based publisher-producer-writer-art-
ist, returned recently to the west
c^'a'^t in the U.S. to re-open offices at
6000 Sunset Boulevard.
Fowley’s copyrights have been re-
corded by such British acts as Man-
fi-ed Mann, the Seekers, Cat Stevens,
Paul Jones, the Cream, and the Bel-
fast Gipsies. Fowley, who played
hypeaphone on the MGM-Verve
Mothers of Invention “Freak Out” LP,
is an exclusive recording artist on
Parlophone Records of England and
Warner Bros. Records’ Loma division
for U.S. A. -Canadian releases.
Living Legend Music, a Kim Fow-
ley-Ardmore and Beechwood Ltd.
owned firm in London has overseas
rights to ‘The Witch,” by the Sonics
on Jerden Records.
Fowley, in conjunction with Hank
Levine and Larry Goldberg’s #1
Productions, has in current release
material by the Fire Escape, GPN-
Crescendo Records, the In-Be-Tween,
Highland Records, and Laughing
Wind, Tower Records.
UA Inks The Omen
NEW YORK— The Omen, a New
York rock quartet, have signed an
exclusive disk contract with United
Artists Records.
Known to discotheque and teen
club devotees throughout the New
York metropolitan area, the Omen
are in their early twenties, and write
and arrange most of their own ma-
terial.
Under the co-direction of producers
Jack Gold and Bill Hughes, the initial
UA single from the vocal-instru-
mental combo titled, “Once Upon A
Taste,” is scheduled for release
shortly by the label.
UA is presently readying a sizeable
publicity and promotional campaign
for their new artists to coincide with
the first release.
In addition, a 90-minute farce
melodrama film takes place in the
1940’s and features the quartet is
currently in production and is slated
to be ready for release by Feb. 1.
Jarre Recording
'Grand Prix' Score
HOLLYWOOD — Academy Award
winning composer Maurice Jarre has
scheduled the first series of recording
sessions for the MGM-Cinerama pre-
sentation of John Frankenheimer’s
film “Grand Prix.” The music will be
released on the MGM label.
Jarre will conduct his original
score with a full symphony orchestra
at the MGM Culver City Studios. The
composer won his Oscars for “Law-
rence of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhiva-
go,” and recently composed the score
for “It Paris Burning?”
“Grand Prix,” a Douglas and Lewis
production, had its world premiere
last week at the Warner Cinerama
Theatre in New York. Starring James
Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Mon-
tand, Toshiro Mifune, Brian Bedford,
Jessica Walter, Antonio Sabato and
Francoise Hardy, the film also opened
at Pacific’s Cinerama Dome Theatre
in Los Angeles and the Cinerama
Theatre in Boston.
Hickory Inks Two Acts
NASHVILLE — Hickory Records added }
two West Coasters to its expanding
artist roster last week with the sign-
ing of singer-songwriter Dorsey Bur-
nette and of Gary Crosby, according
to an announcement from label exec ^
W. D. Kilpatrick.
Burnette and Crosby join a group ?
which includes the Newbeats, Frank
Ifield, Sue Thompson, The Overlan-
ders, and the recently-signed Swingin’
Gentry Singers under the direction of ^
composer-arranger-conductor John
Cacavas.
Dorsey Burnette, who is the com- ’’
poser of the hit song “Tall Oak Tree,”
joins Hickory under a special produc- '
tion arrangement whereby he will
produce Gary Crosby’s disks for the \
label. Burnette has already sliced a
pair of sides himself, and has pro-
duced six sides with Crosby. First
singles for both are due for release
shortly after the first of the year. 1
Coincidentally with his joining
Hickory, Crosby has also been signed
for a series of top TV guest appear-
ances. ,
Music City Recorders
Erects New Building
NASHVILLE — The latest music build-
ing to go up in Nashville’s “music
row” area is that of Music City
Recorders, located at 821 — 19th Ave-
nue South.
Already underway and scheduled
for completion within about 45 days,
the building is actually an addition
to the recording studio’s present
building. The addition, approximately
50 by 75 feet, will include a modern
brick, glass, and redwood “front” to
the present building.
The added space will, according to
the company’s president. Bill Connor,
allow Music City Recorders to offer
“complete recording facilities com-
petitive with any in the South — or the
entire nation, for that matter.”
Music City Recorders was founded
by Connor in 1964, along with W.
Scott Moore, the firm’s vice president.
Both had a number of years experi-
ence with other recording studios
prior to this.
The building addition will house
the studio’s expanded 4-track record-
ing facilities, now being installed,
with provisions in the studio’s new
custom-built console for immediate
switching to eight-track stereo when
needed.
Jay-Gee Inks Bobby Lee
NEW YORK — Jay-Gee Record Co.
has signed Bobby Lee to an exclusive i
recording contract. The artist was a
member of a group called the Fiestas
and wrote “So Fine,” recorded by
that group. The effort became a major ^
hit. He later decided to go it alone
and recorded two outings, “I Was
Born A Loser,” and “I Missed It By ,
That Much.” According to Mickey
Eichner, vice president of Jay-Gee, all i
Bobby Lee’s dates for the label will
be produced by Ramot Productions. .
Flying Again
The Spirit of St. Louis
flies again as (left to
right) Arnold Maxin,
head of Big 3 Music
(Robbins - Feist - Miller)
and Jay Lowy, the pub-
bery’s professional man-
ager, get together with
tunesmiths Abel Baer
and L. Wolfe Gilbert to
discuss the pop revival
of “Lucky Lindy.” The
Gilbert/Baer ditty was
first launched in ’27 to
celebrate the Lindbergh
trans Atlantic hop and is
currently logging time
on Warner Bros, by
Stutz Bearcat.
40
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
|sf t-r
OPEN UP YOUR HEART— Buck Owens & Bucka-
roos — Capitol T/ST 2640
Here’s another Buck Owens package that’s
bound to follow in the wake of all its big money-
making predecessors. Highlighting the set with
his current smash, “Open Up Your Heart,” Buck
and the Buckaroos uncork a whole passel of po-
tent tracks, including the likes of his recent j
giants, “Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line” and i
“Think Of Me.” Stock up and stand me.
MY HEART’S IN THE COUNTRY— Skeeter
Davis— RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3667
Opry favorite Skeeter Davis made lots of
noise on the singles charts with her current
outing called “Coin’ Down The Road,” and she j
uses that same tune to highlight this package !
of country goodies. In addition to that chart !
item, Skeeter offers her own personable versions
of other recent best sellers, including “You Ain’t
Woman Enough,” “Guess My Eyes Were Bigger
Than My Heart” and “Ain’t Had No Lovin’.” A |
sure seller.
NASHVILLE REBEL — Waylon Jennings — RCA
Victor— LPM 3736/LSP 3736 (e)
In the past year Waylon Jennings has con-
quered country audiences with hit singles and
albums and has recently displayed another of
his talents, that of the motion picture actor. His
newly-released film, “Nashville Rebel,” features
an excellent C&W soundtrack, which is featured
in this Victor LP. Among the tracks are “Silver
Ribbons” and “Nashvdle Bums,” as well as the
bonus “Norwegian Wood.”
weicomsTo
WELCOME TO MUSIC CITY U.S.A.— Various
Artists — Columbia CL 2590/CS 9390
Columbia has come up with a great package
here for Opry fans. Fourteen name artists are
represented on the set, including such favorites
as Flatt & Scruggs (“Wabash Cannonball”),
Claude King (“Wolverton Mountain”) and host
Carl Smith (“Let’s Live A Little”) in a ‘live’
Nashville session. Should be good for excellent
sales action.
I
TKEBRCWNS
OUR KIND OF COUNTRY— Browns— RCA Vic-
tor LPM/LSP 3668
The silky smooth harmony of Bonnie, Maxine
and Jim Edward Brown makes for another pack-
age of fine listening in this their latest RCA
Victor LP. A highly appetizing bill of fare is
served up by the trio, highlighted by the group’s
recent charter, “I’d Just Be Fool Enough,” and
laced with a platterful of other goodies sure to
please many a country fan. Great tracks in “Four
Strong Winds” and “Where Does A Little Tear
Come From.”
THE COCKFIGHT AND OTHER TALL TALES
— Archie Campbell — RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3699
Country humor in the hands of inveterate
funnyman Archie Campbell is the basis for this
highly entertaining performance. Laughs fly
thick and fast as the Opry comic speaks on mar-
riage (“The New Marriage Ceremony”), modern
day Romeo and Juliet (“The Martins And The
Coys”) and includes his recent noisemaker “Golf,
Golf, Golf.” Should be nice sales in store for the
session.
A TRIBUTE TO JIM REEVES— Arthur Smith
Show— Dot DLP 3769/DLP 25769
The entire cast of the Arthur Smith TV show
has teamed up in this set to present a wonderful
tribute to the late Jim Reeves. Highlighted by a
half dozen past Reeves hits (“He’ll Have To Go,”
“Four Walls,” “Is It Really Over”) the set also
features a healthy portion of Arthur Smith origi-
nals, like “Guitar Bounce” and “Robin Red-
Breast Legend.” The wide appeal of the TV show
gives the set a powerful springboard.
CoA Box
COUNTRY
ROUND UP
Here’s hoping that everyone in
Countryland has had the happiest of
Christmas holidays, especially those
who were on the road and unable to
be home with loved ones. But,
whether you were on tour or home
with the family and friends, we sin-
cerely hope that your Christmas was
as enjoyable as it could possibly have
been. In addition, we here at Cash
Box would like to wish each and every
one of you a very Happy New Year,
and a very successful one, too. May
1967 bring only Bull’s-Eyes and chart
records, and may the road be lined
with packed houses and cheering
crowds everywhere you go. May every
record get a Golden Guitar and may
every schedule be booked solid. May
that once-in-a-lifetime song come
your way and may each week bring
another bullet. Most of all, may you
be happy, and enjoy yourself in every-
thing you do.
While world leaders arrange sum-
mit conferences to try to bring about
a lasting peace, a batch of country
musicmakers have been arranging
there own “summit” in the Main Ball
Room at Harrah’s in Reno, Nev. from
Feb. 13-Mar. 1. Goodwill ambassadors
from the length and breadth of Coun-
trymusicland will be on hand to make
things vibrate, including Roy Acuff,
George Hamilton IV, Bob Luman,
Marion Worth, the Stoney Mountain
doggers, Lonzo & Oscar and, as a
special envoy from Grinder’s Switch,
Cousin Minnie Pearl. To quote Tandy
Rice, “It a safe bet that any heads
of state who happen to be in the
audience can learn something about
diplomacy and frienliness.”
Congrats to Roger Sovine who has
recently been named professional
manager of Cedarwood. Associated
with the firm since 1965, Roger suc-
ceeds Jan Crutchfield to the post.
What may appear to be part of a
geography test is actually part of the
promotion for the first release by one
of RCA Victor’s brightest new
signees. The artist is Ed Bruce, who
has recently reactivated his entertain-
ment career, and the song is “Walk-
er’s Woods”, written by Kay Arnold
and published by Combine Music. A
contest to determine “Where Is Walk-
er’s Woods?” is being conducted by
the pubbery and, to encourage in-
dividual imagination and opinion, 50
first prizes will be awarded. “Walker’s
Woods Kits”, will include a cotton-
mouth moccasin, an alligator, and a
supply of quick sand (would you be-
lieve reasonable, synthetic facsimilies
thereof ? ) .
Stu Philips, an international coun-
try favorite, has just completed a
cycle in his career. Beginning on
Canadian radio and TV while still in
high school, his fame has spread to
many countries and he has become a
chart artist in the States for Victor.
The cycle was recently completed by
his return to Canada for a TV show
as he taped the Bill Anderson Show
on Dec. 12 and 13 in Windsor, Ont.
Thus far, 1966 has been the biggest
in Stu’s career, but it’s still not over
yet. After the Canadian gig, the song-
ster will bounce down to Chicago
where he will appear on Dolph He-
witt’s “WGN Barn Dance,” and then
he will close out the year with a New
Year’s Eve stand in Cincinnati on the
syndicated “Midwestern Hayride”
over WLW-TV.
Swainsboro, Ga. is the operational
base of the Denny-Pierce radio sta-
tion chain and is therefore the loca-
tion of the annual Christmas party
for the chain, directed by manager
Johnny Bailes. Guests from Nashville
who left today for this year’s affair
include Bill Denny, John Denny, Dolly
Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Webb Pierce,
and Max Powell.
Sonny James left Music City on
Nov. 23 and since that time, along
with the Southern Gentlemen, he has
toured from Pittsburg to Los Angeles
and San Jose. Finally, on Dec. 20, he
made it back to Nashville, but, in-
stead of relaxing, 01’ Son went right
to the studios to cut a new Capitol
session on Dec. 21. His schedule also
called for promotional appearances at
two large Nashville department
stores before eventually heading
wearily to Hackelburg, Ala. Incident-
ally, Sonny intends to be back at work
in Music City on Dec. 27 to map out
plans for 1967 with manager Bob
Neal.
We hear that “Big Sam” Wallace
took one listen to Lorene Mann’s
“Don’t Put Your Hands On Me” and
called her long distance to tell her
she had a hit. Wallace, head of Victor
in Atlanta, was reportedly so excited
that he immediately ran with it from
radio stations to distributors, telling
everyone to be on the lookout. A well-
known figure in the music biz, “Big
Sam” is supposedly an excellent
barometer of things to come, record-
wise.
Jolly Joyce writes to tell us that
Ray Pillow is in the midst of a busy
j December tour of U.S. Army bases in
Germany. In addition to Ray’s book-
ings, the Jolly Joyce Agency will also
be handling Deutschland appearances
for Kitty Wells, Johnny Wright, Ruby
Wright, Bill Philips and the Tennes-
see Mountain Boys all in one package
show for the month of January. For
the following month, the firm will be
booking Leroy Van Dyke and his
band, while in April Joyce will handle
Bill Anderson & the Po’ Boys and in
j May, Faron Young & his Deputies.
With several hit records, countless
stage appearances and three movies
under his belt, UA chanter Del Reeves
has finally drawn the line on the
lengths that one man can be forced
to go for the sake of art. Recently
seen in the movie, “Gold Guitar,”
where he sang from the ledge of a
tall building (with gale force winds
whipping around him and no safety
net below). Reeves is now filming
“Cottonpickin’ Chickenpickers” in
Florida, where, in one scene, he is
supposed to wrestle with a more or
less “tame” alligator. Paraphrasing
the title of his current UA hit, Reeves
commented “This Must Be The Bot-
tom,” and politely declined any con-
tact with the scaly monster. Producer
Jackson is now trying to locate a rub-
ber standin for the gator. Aside from
the trials and tribulations of a Grand
Ole Opry regular turned film star.
Reeves is set for a healthy slate of
personnal appearances throughout the
coming year, beginning with a stop-
over at Davenport, Iowa on New
Year’s Day and a week’s stint at the
Edison Hotel in Toronto, Canada from
Jan. 9 thru 14.
AN ALBUM
MASTERPIECE
KITTY
X S ^
sings
“A WOMAN NEVER FORGETS”
DECCA #32024
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
41
TOP COUNTRY
ALBUMS
1 YOU AIN'T WOMAN ENOUGH 2 i
Loretta Lynn (Oteea DL 47$3/7 47i3)
2 THE BEST OF SONNY JAMES 4
(Capitol T/ST 2615) i
3 SWINGIN' DOORS 1 s
Marie Haggard (Capitol T/ST 2535)
4 ALMOST PERSUADED 3 j
Dayid Houston
(Sple LN 2421 3 /BN 26213)
s ANOTHER BRIDGE TO BURN 5
Kay Price (Columbia CL 2528/CS 9328)
6 THE LAST WORD IN
LONESOME 6
Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3622)
7 LEAVIN' TOWN 12
Waylon Jennings
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3620)
8 NAT STUCKEY SINGS 14
(Paula LP 2192)
9 BORN TO SING 17
Connie Smith (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3628)
10 your sincerely 9
Jim Reeves
(RCA Victor LPM 3709/LSP 3709 E.)
11 SOMEBODY LIKE ME 17
Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor LPM/LSP 371S)
12 WE FOUND HEAVEN RIGHT
HERE ON EARTH AT 4033 16
George Jones (Musicor MM 2106/MS 3106)
13 DISTANT DRUMS 10
Jim Reeves
(RCA Victor LPM 3S42/LSP 3S42)
14 CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT 8
Suck Owens & Buckaroes
(Capitol T/ST 2556)
15 THE DRIFTER 11
Marty Robbins
(Columbia CL 2527 /CS 9327)
16 HAPPINESS IS YOU 19
Johnny Cash (Columbia CL 2537/CS 9337) i
17 WHERE IS THE CIRCUS 20
Hank Thompson
(Warner Bros. W/WS 1664)
18 A MILLION AND ONE 18
Billy Walker
(Monument MLP 8047/LSP 3507)
19 I LOVE DROPS 15 I
BUI Anderson (Dacca DL 4771/7 4771) \
20 the SEELY STYLE 22
Jeannie Seely
(Monument MLP 80S7/SLP 180S7)
21 ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE
AND WAR 26 j
Stonewall Jackson
(Columbia CL 2509/CS 9309)
22 THERE GOES MY
EVERYTHING 27 |
Jack Greene (Decca DL 4845/7 4845)
23 I'LL TAKE THE DOG 24 !
Jean Shepard & Ray Pillow j
(Capitol ST/T 2537;
24 FREE AND EASY 25
Dave Dudley
(Mercury MG 21098/SR 61098)
25 GEORGE JONES GOLDEN HITS 1 3
(United Artists PAL 3532 /U AS 6532)
26 big ben strikes again 30 !
Ben Colder (MGM E/SE 4421)
27 COUNTRY CHARLIE PRIDE 29 I
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3645) j
28 the kitty wells show 23 :
Various Artists (Decca DL 4831 /7 4831)
29 IF THE WHOLE WORLD i
STOPPED LOVIN' —
Roy Drusky
(Mercury MG 21097 SR 61097) ,
30 NORMA JEAN SINGS A
TRIBUTE TO KITTY WELLS —
(RCA Victor LPM/LSP 3664)
IIIIIIIIIIH^
COUNTRY
Gash Box REVIEWS
B+ very good
B good
C+ fair
C mediocre
THE CASH BOX
buLlseye
WHERE DOES THE GOOD TIMES GO (2:18) [Blue Book, BMI— Owens]
THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU (2:36) [Blue Book, BMI— Owens]
BUCK OWENS (Capitol 5811)
The Buck Owens bandwagon should be building up another head of
steam and blazing a path sti-aight to the top for the umpteenth time.
Make way for “Where Does The Good Times Go,” ’cause this easy-
paced thumper’s gonna zoom. “The Way That I Love You” is a pretty
charmer.
ALL OF ME BELONGS TO YOU (2:16) [Blue Book, BMI— Haggard]
MY SIDE OF THE NIGHT (2:15) [Blue Book, BMI— Curless]
DICK CURLESS (Tower 306)
Absent from the charts since his tale of “The Baron,” Dick Curless
should be back in the scoring column in no time as a result of this
number called “All Of Me Belongs To You.” Curless serves up a low-
down, throbbing heartbreaker that’s sure to do well. “My Side Of The
Night” is a shuffling tale of further woe.
THE GEAR JAMMER AND THE HOBO (3:26) [Starday, BMI— Bond]
SWEET NELLIE (1:55) [Starday, BMI— Hayes, Singer]
JOHNNY BOND & RED SOVINE (Starday 790)
Programmers should get a lot of reaction to this rib-tickling team-up
effort by Johnny Bond and Red Sovine, along with the Giddyup Go
Boys. ‘The Gear Jammer And The Hobo” is a Vaudeville-type comedy
routine which the boys have yanked from a recently released LP. The
Giddyup Go Boys offer an engaging instrumental on the flip.
ROCKS IN MY HEAD (2:29) [Blue Book, BMI— Owens]
TRAPPED (2:40) [Central Songs, BMI — Rhodes, Simpson]
KAY ADAMS (Tower 305)
Here’s Kay Adams back with what looks like another chart climber
for her. Tabbed “Rocks In My Head,” this effort looks real good for
lots of air action. Kay lets loose with a dual-track stomper that’s worth
a listen. “Trapped” is another nicely handled blues bouncer.
Newcomer Picks
TOP TWENTY (1:59) [Four Star, BMI— Fuller]
WALL TO WALL HEARTACHES (2:24)
[Northern, ASCAP — Clarkson, Freed]
CHERYLE THOMPSON (Decca 32066)
Here’s a cute little offering by Cheryle Thompson that could put her
in the spotlight real quick. Titled “Top Twenty,” this one tells of a
gal who wants to be No. 1 in her boyfriend’s poll. Deserves a spin. “Wall
To Wall Heartaches” is a change of pace to a slowed down blueser.
IlllllllllllllllllillllllllllillllllllllllllllUlilii^
Corrections On C&W
Top Male Vocalists
NEW YORK — In last week’s Christ-
mas special there were several errors
in the country listings which call for
correction.
In the poll listing of the Top Male
Vocalist, Buck Owens was listed as
the No. 1 male vocalist and Eddy
Arnold was listed in the No. 2 spot.
In actuality, both artists were tied
for the No. 1 position. The error also
caused other artists to be placed im-
properly in the top 5. I
The listings read: No. 1 — Buck I
Owens, No. 2 — Eddy Arnold, No. 3—
Jim Reeves, No. 4 — Sonny James, No.
5— Roger Miller. The proper listing
should be : No. 1 — Buck Owens &
Eddy Arnold, No. 2 — Jim Reeves, No.
3 — Sonny James, No. 4 — George
Jones, No. 5 — Roger Miller, etc.
George Jones, who placed No. 4 was
inadvertently omitted from the list-
ings.
Hank Thompson/Falst-aff
Endorsement Pact Renewed
INDEPENDENCE, KAN. — Hank
TJ ompson has renewed his personal
e:.dorsement contract with the Fal-
staff Brewing Corporation. Thompson
snd his Brazos Valloy Boys rocontly
cut a new series of radio commercials
for Falstaff.
Starday Signs
George Morgan
NASHVILLE — Starday Records
president Don Pierce has announced
that the label has signed country
songster George Morgan to a record-
ing contract. Formerly with Colum-
bia, Morgan has had an illustrious
career in records, with such memor-
able hits as “Candy Kisses,” “Room
Full Of Roses,” “Cry Baby Heart,”
and many others.
Pierce announced immediate ses-
sions for Morgan, who’ll be working ;
with Starday’s A&R chief, Tommy ,
Hill, and who will be joining a roster
that includes Johnny Bond, the Willis j
Brothers, Red Sovine and Minnie 1
Pearl, to name a few.
An all-out campaign is being ;
planned by merchandising sales and
promo department heads Hal Neely,
Jim Wilson and Charlie Dick to kick
off Morgan’s first single for the label,
which is due in Jan., and an album,
which is set for Feb.
When asked about his switch, Mor-
gan was quoted as saying “I like to
be with a label that specializes in my
kind of music.” He went on to say
that his parting from Columbia was
an amicable one. ;
TEXAS TROUBADORS
(Decca 32065)
(B4-) WALKING THE FLOOR
OVER YOU (1:47) [Noma,
BMI — Tubb] The Texas Troubadors
serve up a wild sampling of the
Ernest Tubb standard which should
score well with the boys’ fans.
(B) E. T. BLUES (2:00) [Win-
dow, BMI — Rhodes, Charleton]
Another excellent Tubb-ful on the flip.
CHUCK JENNINGS (Up-Beat 5533)
(B-f) ECHO OF YOUR FOOT-
STEPS (2:10) [Floyd Davis,
BMI — Davis] Chuck Jennings could
stir up nice action with this sad-sound-
ing stanza of a man whose gal exits
stage left.
(B) I SEE THINGS THE OTHER
WAY (2:35) [Floyd Davis,
BMI — Davis] Another gal takes a
powder on this side.
HAL PHILLIPS (Silver Star 1015)
(B-f) GIRL FROM AB ILENE
(2:12) [Tree, BMI — Crutch-
field] Boasting and bragging are the
cause of Hal Phillips downfall in this
bouncy, low-key heartbreaker. May do
healthy business.
(B) CRYING IS THE FASHION
(2:10) [Silver Star, BMI—
Phillips, Brewer] Tears fill up the
grooves on this pretty blueser. Equal-
ly attractive outing.
TERRY BRAND (Trend 1021)
(B-f) THE PAPER I HAD SIGNED
(2:22) [Mimic, BMI— King]
Terry Brand may make a name for
himself as a result of this tale of
shattered romance with a Reno ending.
(B) I CAN’T HAVE YOU (1:50)
[Mimic, BMI — Skipper] On
this side the songster serves up
blues with a bounce.
Good Will Tour
The gospel-s i n g i n g
Prophets have been busy
of late on the personal
appearance trail, but
they still have time for
missions of mercy.
Shown above, the boys
take time out to visit
wounded Viet Nam vet-
ara.iis hospitalized at Ft.
Campbell, Ky.
' 42
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
There's no catching him now!
Merle Haggard
THE FUGITIVE
b/w Someone Told My Story/ 5803
This single is going to make a lot of C&W hay.
A gi’eat song . . . sung by a great artist.
Put Merle Haggard on your most-wanted list.
Publishing: FOUR STAR MUSIC COMPANY 806 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee
Management: Jack McFadden OMAC Artist Corp. 403 Chester Ave., Bakersfield, California
Telephone: 805 FA 77201 or FA 71000
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
COUNTRY
10
15
Pos. Last
Week
THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING
IBIuecr&sf — BMIJ 2
Jock Greene (Decca 32023)
SOMEBODY LIKE ME
(Barron — BMI) 1
Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor S869)
TOUCH MY HEART
(Mayhew — BMf) 3
Ray Price (Columbia 43795)
DON'T COME HOME A-DRINKIN'
(With Lovin' On Your Mind)
^Sure Fire — BMI] 7
Loretta Lynn (Decca 32045)
THE HURTIN'S ALL OVER
(Wilderness — BMI) 4
Conn/e Smith (RCA Victor 8964)
GAMES OF TRIANGLES
fDe/more — ASCAP) 6
Bobby Bare, Norma Jean & Liz Anderson
(RCA Victor 8963)
I GET THE FEVER
^Sfo//fon — BM/j 5
Bill Anderson (Decca 31999)
UNMITIGATED GALL
^Ce<Jofwood — BMI) 9
Faron Young (Mercury 72617)
MISTY BLUE
fTo/monf — BMI) 11
Wilma Burgess (Decca 32027)
SWEET THANG
(Su-Ma—BMI) 8 i
Not Stuckey (Paula 243) :
STAND BESIDE ME |
(Glaser — 6M/j 14 |
Jimmy Dean (RCA Victor 8971)
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN
(Southtown — BMI I
Bobby Lewis (United Artists 50067)
FUNNY, FAMILIAR,
FORGOTTEN FEELING
(Acuff-Rose — BMI)
Don Gibson (RCA Victor 8975)
MR. SHORTY
( Mariposa — RA4 / j
Marty Robbins (Columbia 43870)
OPEN UP YOUR HEART
(Blue Book— BMI)
Buck Owens (Capitol 5705)
(Pamper — BMI)
Webb Pierce (Decca 32033)
17 STATESIDE
I Cedarwood — BA4 / J
Mel Tillis (Kapp 772)
18 ALMOST PERSUADED #2
(Al Gollico — BMI)
Ben Colder fMGM 13590)
19 MOTEL TIME AGAIN
(Central Songs — BMI)
Johnny Paycheck (Utile Darlin' 0016)
20 THE BOTTLE LET ME DOWN
fB/ue Boole — BMI)
Merle Haggard (Capitol 5704)
21 WHERE IS THE CIRCUS
(Brazos Valley — BMI)
Hank Thompson (Warner Bros. 5858)
ANOTHER STORY, ANOTHER
TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
(Marson — BMI)
Ernest Tubb (Decca 32022)
23 THIS MUST BE THE BOTTOM
(MosS‘Rose — BMI)
Del Reeves (United Artists 50081)
24 WHERE COULD I GO?
(But To Her)
(A) Galileo — BMI)
David Houston (Epic 10102)
25 IF THE WHOLE WORLD
STOPPED LOVING
( Fingerlake — BM I )
Ray Drusky (Mercury 72627)
29
31
32
33
34
3
37
38
22
40
16 WHERE'D YOU STAY LAST NIGHT
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Pos. Last
Week
BEAR WITH ME
A LITTLE LONGER
(Hill S Range— BMI) 31
Billy Walker (Monument 980)
WIFE OF THE PARTY
(Yanah, Greenback — BMI) 32
Liz Anderson (RCA Victor 8999)
LOSER'S CATHEDRAL
(Al Gollico— BMI) 39
David Houston (Epic 10102)
APARTMENT #9
(Mayhew — BMI) 19
Bobby Austin (Tally 500)
ONCE
(Harbot—SESAC) 38
Ferlin Husky (Capitol 5775)
DON'T LET THAT
DOORKNOB HIT YOU
(Acclaim — BMI) 34
Norma Jean (RCA Victor 8989)
OUR SIDE
(Bumper — 6M/j 35
Van Trevor (Band Box 371)
A WOMAN NEVER FORGETS
(Cedarwood — BMI) 30
Kitty Wells (Decca 32024)
CALL HER YOUR SWEETHEART
(Acuff-Rose — f^MI) 33
Frank (field (Hickory 1411)
HURT HER ONCE FOR ME
(Sure Fire — BM/) 43
Wilburn Bros. (Decca 32038)
YOU BEAT ALL I EVER SAW
Johnny Cash (Columbia) 45
RIDE, RIDE, RIDE
(Yonah-BMI) 42
Lynn Anderson (Chart 1375)
BURNING BRIDGES
tSoge & Sond-SESAC) 44
Glen Campbell (Capitol 5773)
SEVEN DAYS OF CRYING
(MAKES ONE WEAK)
(Southtown — Bt^'l 50
Harden Trio (Columbia 43844)
FUGITIVE
(Eour Star— BMI) 48
Merle Haggard (Capitol 5803)
TEARS WILL BE THE CHASER
FOR YOUR WINE
/Tree— BMI) 46
Wanda Jackson (Capitol)
I NEVER HAD THE ONE
I WANTED
(Vanio—BMI) 51
Claude Gray (Decca 32039)
WHAT'S COME OVER MY BABY
(Tree— BMI) 53
Dottie West (RCA Victor 9011)
THE FIRST WORD
(Vintage— BMI) —
Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor 9027)
JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME
(Jock— BMI) 47
Charlie Pride (RCA Victor 9000)
HULA LOVE
(Mon-BMI) 52
Hank Snow (RCA Victor 9012)
THAT'LL BE THE DAY
(Sou-hwInd—BMI) 49
Statler Brothers (Columbia 43868)
A WANDERIN' MAN
(Pamper — BMI) 54
Jeannie Seely (Monument 987)
THE REAL THING
(Newkeys — BMI) —
Billy Grammer (Epic 10103)
COUNTRY BOY'S DREAM
(Cedarwood — BMI) 55
Carl Perkins (Dollie 505)
51 SOMEONE TOLD MY STORY
Merle Haggard (Capitol 5803)
52 GREEN RIVER
Waylon Jennings (RCA Victor 9025)
53 MR. DO-IT-YOURSELF
Jeon Shepard & Ray Pillow (Capitol 5769)
54 HAPPY TRACKS
Kenny Price (Boone 1051)
r.3 UTTLE THINGS EVERY GIRL
SI vULD KNOW
Claude King (Columbia 43867)
iiiilllllllliiillilillilllllllllllllll
56 HEAVEN HELP THIS HEART OF MINE
Billy Grammer (Epic 10103)
57 APARTMENT #9
Tammy Wynette (Epic 10095)
58 HEART FULL OF LOVE
Johnny Dallas (Little Darlin' 0013)
59 SAD FACE
Ernie Ashworth (Hickory 1428)
60 ONE DREAM
Slim Whitman (Imperial 66212)
‘ Heart Full of Love !'
b/yy "Gray Flannel World"
LD-013
gene moooslin produotions
44
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
r
December 31, 1966
fy
■)
i
■ J
k t
‘ \
I
'*
Herman's Hermits, currently on their fourth American tour, are one of Britain's most successful exports. Their latest Columbia single "East West" as well as giving
them another transatlantic smash has also taken them into the Top Ten charts around the world. “No Milk Today" was recently voted Top Pop Song by juries from
Britain, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Spain and Belgium.
BRITAIN
Sales of grammaphone records in September, the first month of the Autumn
releases, totalled £2,168,000, 2% less than the same month of 1965. Home sales
fell by 10% but export sales (which accounted for about 21% of the total)
shot up b:^ 52%. Despite the drop in singles sales during the year, taking the
fii-st nine months as a whole, total sales increased by 2% compared with the
corresponding period of 1965. Export sales, representing 16% of the total,
were up by 11% but home sales, alas, increased by less than 1%. Total pro-
duction for the first nine months of the year was 4%% lower than in the
same period last year. Eleven per cent fewer 45 r.p.m. disks were produced
but LP production rose by 9%.
Britain’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Vienna on
April 8th will be chosen from five songs selected by a committee of the Music
Publishers Association from 122 entries, all of which were submitted anony-
mously. Sandie Shaw will sing the numbers in five programs of “The Rolf
Harris Show” commencing Jan. 21st. As in previous years, viewers will vote
by post card for the winning song. The songs are:
“Ask Any Woman” by Jimmy Stewart and Gerry Langley (published by
Mills); “Pll Cry Myself To Sleep” by Roger Webb (published by Jemb Music);
“Tell The Boys” by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander (published by Shapiro
Bernstein); “Puppet On A String” by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter (published
by DPM Music); “Had A Dream Last Night” by Chris Andrews (published
by Fortissimo MUsic).
Tamla Motown star Jimmy Ruffin, accompanied by label boss Barney Ales,
flew into London recently and were guests of honor at a reception given by
E.M.I. Records to celebrate Ruffin’s first entry into the British hit parade with
“What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted.” During his week’s stay, Ruffin
appeared on BBCTV’s “Top Of The Pops” and filmed an insert for his follow-
up disk “I’ve Passed This Way Before” just issued in the States.
Geoffrey Bridge, managing director of EMI Records, accompanied by Rex
Oldfield, general manager Licensed Repertoii-e Division, recently visited the
United States where they extended for three years their licensing deal with
the Amy Mala label. Bridge and Oldfield also had discussions with A1 Bennett,
president of Liberty Records, regarding future releases of their product.
Australian pop star Normie Rowe, with his first British single “It’s Not
Easy” released on Polydor, flew home for Christmas in the sun. By the time
he returns early in 1967, his Australian backing group the Playboys will be
in Britain to accompany him on future recordings and to appear as an inde-
pendent group.
Top recording star Georgie Fame has left the Columbia label and signed a
five-year recording contract with CBS. The company plan to put him in the
studio early in 1967 to cut his first single. CBS are reported to have paid
handsomely for the services of Fame whose past hits include “Yeh Yeh,”
“Get Away” and “Sunny.” CBS also may have a new single by Sandy Posey —
“Single Girl.” Her previous single “Born A Woman” — although failing to get
into the Top Twenty — registered good sales. Willie Bobo has waxed his version
of “Sunshine Superman” for CBS.
Recent \isitor to London Mrs. Guerrini of Milan, vice president of the
newly-formed Rentier Recording Company and publishing firm Guerrini
(Jrouppo Editoriale. Mrs. Guerrini completed a deal with Baldwin Burns &
Company to distribute their British-manufactured guitars and amplifiers in
Italy.
The Monkees TV series begins on Dec. 31st, and a month later RCA \’ictor
issue their current American smash “I’m A Believer.” Their previous U.S.
chart topper “Last Train To Clarksville” — although a million seller in America
— failed to click here. Nevertheless, their latest single backed by TV exposure
may solve the ‘Monkee’ puzzle and take them into the British charts.
Robert Stigwood, manager of British group the Cream, currently in New
York setting up radio and TV dates to meet Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Rec-
ords, U.S. distributor of the group’s British label Reaction.^
French indie A&R managers Alain Boublil and Jacques Wolfsohn in London
visiting Pye Records for discussions regarding future English recordings by
their artists Antoine, Francois Hardy and Jacques Dutronc. Dutronc will be
here in Jan. to cut English versions of his current French charter “Les
Playboys.” .
The oddly-titled psychedelic American hit “The Eggplant That Ate Chicago
is about to eat its way through Britain on three labels. The original version
by Dr. West’s Medicine Junk Band is released on CBS with cover versions by
Professor Ernest Node and his Mug Jug Band on Columbia and Spencer’s
Washboard Kings on Pye. .
Quickies: Dave Miller of Budget Sounds, Inc., in London for talks with Pye
Records managing director Louis Benjamin. . . . Spanish singer Raphael in
London for BBC 2 TV “International Cabaret”. . . . Marlene Dietrich’s new
Pye single “This World Of Ours” issued in US on Decca. . . . Rita Pavone
visiting Britain early in Jan. promoting new single “You Only You” on RCA.
. . . Ray Williams and Simon Hayes of Ace Public Relations are handling press
and publicity for Brian Epstein’s Savilee Theatre. . . . “Green Green Grass Of
Home” still topping Best Selling Sheet Music Lists for Burlington^ Music. . . .
Brian Epstein’s New Year plans for the Saville Theatre include Billy Stewart
(Feb. 5th), followed by Chuck Berry (Feb. 19th), Edwin Starr and Garnet
Mimms (Feb. 26th), Lee Dorsey (March 5th) and the Impressions (April
16th). . . . EMI hosted reception for American recording phenomenon Mrs.
Miller here for TV appearances and to promote the unique “Miller sound.”
Tom Jones “Green Green Grass Of Home” Decca recording no\v passed the
half million mark. . . . Congratulations to Ted Heath celebrating his 21st
anniversary as Big Band Leader. . . . Australian group the Twilights in Lon-
don promoting “Needle In A Haystack,” a chart topper in their own country
and issued here by EMI. . . . Publisher Jimmy Philips of K.P.M. Music was
guest of honor at the Music Publishers Association Christmas luncheon which
was attended by over 150 guests.
Miu0M
IS COMING
CANNES
fO JAN. 1967-4 FEB. 1967
CBS' Boutet- Visits London
PARIS — Philip Boutet of April Music
and CBS Records in Paris flew to
London recently where his copyright,
“Le Soleil Blanc” by Tshuka, issued in
France by CBS, has been covered in
Britain by Valerie Masters on Poly-
dor. Barbara Hayes of April Music
London has the new Los Bravos
single on Decca “Going Nowhere”
Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” on
Atlantic and “Cry Like A Baby” by
Aretha Franklin on CBS.
Germany and the music business are still in a state of semi-war with the
radio stations here, and a reduced number of platters are crossing the radio
turntables. Most of the stations have increased their record programming as
of the 1st of January, but the fight is still not settled. Everyone is hoping that
the disagreement will reach a final settlement early in the year and that things
will return to normal, especially in the popularity and sales of German singles
productions. One thing is certain. When a German language disk “clicks”, it
outsells considerably its foreign counterpart. The trade paper “Music” with its
analysis of their charts for 1966 showed 18 of the 20 top hits of the year to be
foreign recoi-ds, but the top 2 were “Ganz In Weiss” (All In White) by Roy
Black from Polydor (published by August Seith) and “Hundert Mann & Ein
Befehl” (Ballad of the Green Berets) by Freddy Quinn from Polydor (pub-
lished by Francis, Day and Hunter).
Top artists chartwise here were the Beatles, Roy Black, Chris Andrews, the
Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky, Mick & Tich, Freddy
Quinn, Draft Deutscher, the Troggs and Nini Rosso.
The record companies racking up the highest positions were in order: Teldec
with 46 songs in the charts and 4969 points, Electrola with 31 songs making
the listings and 4359 chart points, Polydor with 41 songs in the coveted list
and 3963 points followed by CBS with 48 songs and 3694 points. Philips with
32 songs and 3679 points, Deutsche Vogue with 22 songs and 2158 points,
Ariola with 22 songs and 2158 points, and Metronome with 23 songs and 877
points.
Deutsche Grammophon takes over the Sonet-Storyville Scandinavian lables
as of Jan. 1st.
Ralph Siegel, Jr., is swinging with his Newbeats stateside disc “My Yester-
day Love” which he wrote. The son of Ralph Maria Siegel is also making his
mark locally with a new Dorthe recording which looks like it’s chartbound. In
the meanwhile the publishing firm is swinging with “Distant Drums” in a
German recording by Fred Bertelmann.
.A1 Martino’s first visit to Germany seems to have paid off “in spades” for
the artist’s I’ecordings for Electrola here. After appearing on a top TV broad-
cast with “Spanish Eyes” and “Auf Wiedersehn” — both written by Bert
Kaempfert — the songs started moving like mad salewise. Although “Spanish
Eyes” made the charts here in Summer, the show started such a run on sales
that immediate repressing of the record was necessary to keep up with orders.
A1 made such a great impression on the German public that he now has offers
for virtually every top TV show hei’e and will be back in May to fulfill TV
and other shows. The question is only when he will start with German record-
ings.
GERMANY— BEST SELLERS OVER THE PAST 8 WEEKS
This Last Weeks
Week Week On Chart
(Courtesy “Music”)
Eine Handvoll Reis (A Hand Full Of Rice) — Freddy —
Polydor — Edition Esplanade
2 2 8 Bend It — Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Star Club
— Minerva Music/R. Von Der Dovenmuhle
3 3 8 Little Man — Sonny & Cher — Atlantic — Edition Intro/P.
Meisel
4 4 8 1 Can’t Control My.self — The Troggs — Hansa — Rolf Budde
Music
.3 .5 8 Dunja Du — Ronny — Telefunken — Idee Music
6 6 5 Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Sha-
dow— The Rolling Stones — Decca — Hans Gerig Music
7 7 3 *Du Allein (You Alone) — Franz Beckenbauer — Polydor —
Radio Music Int.
8 8 8 ’-’Sag Mir Wie (Tell Me Ho\y) — Udo Juergens — Vogue—
Montana Music/H. R. Beierlein
9 9 3 ’-’Moderne Romanzen (Modern Romances) — Peter Alexander
— Ariola — Hans Gerig Music
10 10 5 Sunshine Superman — Donovan — Epic — Peer Music/T. See-
ger
GERMANY— JUKE BOX-RADIO-SALES FAVORITES
This Last Weeks
Week Week On Chart
(Courtesy “Automaten-Markt”)
11 2 ’’Eine Handvoll Reis (A Hand Full Of Rice) — Fz'eddy — Poly-
dor— Edition Esplanade
2 2 2 ’^Moderne Romanzen (Modern Romances) — Peter Alexander
— Ariola — Hans Gerig Music
3 3 7 Bend It — Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich — Star Club
— Minerva Music/R. Von Der Dovenmuhle
4 4 2 Augen Wie Zwei Sterne (That’s Nice) — Rex Gildo — Ariola
— Edition Belmont
5 5 7 ’’Wenn Du Einsam Bist (When You Are Lonely) — Ronny —
Telefunken — Edition Marbot
6 6 4 1 Can’t Control Myself— The Troggs— Hansa— Rolf Budde
Music
7 7 7 Little Man — Sonny & Cher — Atlantic — Edition Intro/ P.
Meisel
8 8 2 Mr. Cannibal — Andy Fisher — Vogue — Nero/Edition Intro/
P. Meisel
9 9 7 ’’Sag Mir Wie (Tell Me How) — Udo Juergens— Vogue —
Montana Music/H. R. Beierlein
10 10 2 ’’Lass Den Dummen Kummer (Stop That Worrying) —
Renate Kern — Polydor— Edition Maxim
’’Original German Copyright
NEGRAM - HOLLAND CORRECTION
Unfortunately, because of a printer’s error, the wrong Negram ad appeared in the year-end
issue. The correct ad appears on page 51 in this week's issue.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966-
-International Seclion
Box
InteiDationol News Beport
French Musicians Strike Ends
BBC Gets New Pop Program;
Disks Spin Six Hours A Day
PARIS — The strike of French musi-
cians is ended. After three-and-a-half
months, musicians and disk producers
reached mutual agreement, the most
important of which is the rise of the
MILAN — Pier Quinto Carriaggi, head
of GDI, was in Poland recently. Dur-
ing his trip, he met one of the most
outstanding singing talents of the
East, Anna German. She is considered
one of the best selling artists of
Poland, Chechoslovakia, Hungary and
Russia.
Carriaggi signed a long term ex-
clusive agreement with this song-
stress for the entire western hemi-
fee for a three hour recording session
to 85 francs instead of 75. Further
talks will take place in Jan. to iron
out other problems that brought
about the strike.
sphere. She was introduced to Italian
press representatives during a cock-
tail party held in her honor in Milan,
during a visit paid to Italy. She has
recorded, in Milan, her first single,
immediately released under the GDI
label.
A pact has ah-eady been concluded
with San Remo organizers for the
presentation of this songstress in the
1967 San Remo contest.
LONDON — The Government white
paper on the future of broadcasting
and TV in Britain, belatedly published
last week, resolves the long-standing
question concerning the future of
radio in this country: commercial
radio is out; and the BBC is in.
By the time the anti-pirate bill be-
comes law in July, 1967, the BBC will
be broadcasting continuous pop music
on 247 metres medium wave band.
The Postmaster General makes it
clear that the new BBC program, un-
like the pirates, will be planned for
family consumption, and not just
teenagers. The pi-ogram will include
six hours of records a day, and will
be transmitted on weekdays from
5:30 am to 7:30 pm and again from
10 pm to 2 am, and for most of Sun-
days. Additionally, the BBC is au-
thorized to establish nine short range
local stations on VHF to cover urban
and rural areas all over the country.
The Government indicates that
these stations will be local in char-
acter, and requests that local musi-
cians are asked to provide “live” per-
foimances. While permission to set up
a series of local stations is a triumph
for the BBC, it is viewed as blow to
those who support commercial radio
and pop pirates. However, because the
BBC has been asked to conduct this
experiment in local broadcasting, it
implies no commitment that it would
necessarily be asked to provide a per-
manent service if it was decided to
authorize one. The white paper also
excludes a fourth TV channel for at
least three years.
CDIInks Top Polish Songstress
Iramac Director To U.S.
Pye’s ^Marble Arch^ Strikes Gold
HOLLAND — S. Samama, director of
one of Holland’s youngest and rapid
growing record companies, Iramac,
will be at the Wentworth-Hotel in
New York City Jan. 6, for about two
weeks, to conclude contracts with sev-
eral U.S. labels and to have talks with
U.S. A. companies for the representa-
tion of the Iramac label in the U.S.
and Canada. U.S. labels, not repre-
sented yet over here, could contact
Mr. Samama at the above mentioned
hotel.
LONDON — Bye’s low-priced Marble
Arch series, originally put on the
market in October 1964 primarily as a
classical label, was activated on a
wider scale in September this year,
and since then over 800,000 albums
have been sold ranging from pops to
classics and retailing at 12/6d.
($1.75). This figure, plus the 200,000
sold before the label really got under-
way, brings total sales of Marble
Arch to over a million copies. This
low-priced label now boasts a roster
of top flight artists such as The
Kinks, The Seai-chers, Chuck Berry,
Lonnie Donegan, Ball-Barber-Bilk etc.
The success of Marble Arch is seen as
more remarkable in view of the fact
that the series sells throup-h retailers
not supermarkets etc. and under the
normal five per cent return privilege.
HERE I AM — Mrs. Miller was the guest of honor at a reception held for her
at the EMI offices in London recently. The lark is pictured above as flanked by
Geoffrey Bridge (left), managing director of EMI Records, and Sir Joseph
Lockwood, chairman of EMI Ltd. Mrs. Miller was in Great Britain for appear-
ances on Associated Rediffusion’s “The Frost Programme.”
Sweden's Best Sellers
This Last Weeks
Week Week On Chart
10 —
11
Consolation (Hep Stars/Olga) Hep House AB, Sweden
Vid Din Sida (Sven Ingvars/Svensk-American) Seven
Brothers Music Inc./Edition Odeon, Sweden
No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits/Columbia) Ehrling &
Lofvenholm AB, Sweden
Puff The Magic Dragon (Fabulous Four/Hep House) Gehr-
mans, Sweden
Alex Is The Man (Ola & Janglers/Gazell) Sonet Music
AB, Sweden
Good Vibrations (Beach Boys/Capitol) Sweden Music AB,
Sweden
Marble Breaks And Iron Bends (Dee Jays/Hep House)
Sweden Music AB, Sweden
Slit Och Slang (Lucky Lips) (Siw Malmkvist/Metronome)
Belinda (Scandinavia) AB, Sweden
I Natt Jag Drdmde (Last Night I Had A Strangest
Dream) (Hep Stars/Olga) Musikforlaget Essex AB, Swe-
den
Bad Boy (Beatles/Parlophone) Sonora Musikforlags AB,
Sweden
Local copyright
Decca Finalizes London Confab
LONDON — Decca Records is finalis-
ing plans for the second London Rec-
ords Sales Convention which will be
held from Jan. 15 to 22. For the sec-
ond year running Chairman, Sir Ed-
ward Lewis, will play host to more
than 140 key personnel of London
Records America, the wholly owned
subsidiary of the British company. An
elaborate program of business and
social events are being lined up in-
cluding visits to the House of Com-
mons and Windsor Castle as well as
to some of London’s swingiest restau-
rants and discotheques.
Los Bravos Set For San Remo
MILAN — Marino Marini, owner of the
new diskery Tiffany Records, has an-
nounced that the top group Los
Bravos will perform on the stage of
San Remo in the upcoming edition of
the contest.
Los Bravos are under exclusive dis-
tribution for Italy with Tiffany Rec-
ords. As in other countries of the
world, their hit “Black Is Black” has
reached top positions in Italy.
In the meantime. Tiffany has re-
leased the first LP of the group, Los
Bravos are expected for a tour in
Italy starting January 4. They will
perform in the Sport Palace of Milan,
Bologna, Rome and Genova. They will
also act in all Piper Clubs of Italy.
118 AT 25 — Decca Chairman Sir Edward Lewis recently presented 118 mem-
bers of his staff with gold watches to commemorate twenty-five years service
with the company. The recipients came from the record, radio and TV divisions
of the group and between them accounted for over 2,950 years of service. Our
picture shows Sir Edward (right) congratulating W. Townsley (a Director of
the company) at the presentation ceremony.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966 — International Section
47
ARGENTINA
Last week, we had a chat with Julio Korn’s topper Felix Lipesker, regarding ,
the recent reorganization of this pubbery. Lipesker stated that local publishing
houses meet a somewhat hard financial situation due to the non-payment of
royalties by SADAIC, and the fact that only 25% of these royalties go to the
publisher (with 75% belonging to the composer) for local songs. According to
Lipesker, SADAIC has been charging about 60% of the payments as adminis- ;
tration costs. He added that the revamping will mean better business for |
foreign publishers in 1967, since more of JK’s efforts will be devoted to these
catalogs next year.
RCA presented Palito Ortega with his second gold record at a cocktail party
at the Golf Club last week. Palito has been extremely successful during the
past five years with his singles, albums and films, both in Argentina and
abroad. The gathering also served to present his new album, “Un Muchacho
Como listed.”
CBS infos that folk group Los Trovadores has been inked by Channel 13 for
its giant “Sabados Circulares” program and is also expected to appear at the
Cosquin Folk Music Festival next month. In 1967 they will tour several
European countries. Another artist, Dino Alvarado, will perform on the same
channel during all ’67 and is currently recording his second single. ;
Odeon reports the release of an EP by Salvatore Adamo following the suc-
cessful sales of his single. First sales of its “Coleccion Musical” series (featur-
ing top local and international artists at budget prices) have been extremely [
satisfactory according to the label’s sales topper Abate. ' i
Fermata infos that its album “14 with Tango” has been selling extremely |
well during the first month of issue. The songs contained in the LP are being
recorded by other artists, including Edmundo Rivero, who is waxing “En que
Esquina te Encuentro Buenos Aires” for Philips, and Rodolfo Lesica, who will
cut “Alejandra” for Odeon. Tango orkster Jose Basso will cut for Music Hall
“Milonga de Albornoz.”
Producciones F'^rmata is busy with hot releases. This week appeared “Love
Me, Please Love Me” by Michel Poulnareff, and “L’Amour, Toujours L’Amour,”
cut by Guy Mardel. From Brazil comes as a big potential hit “A Banda,” the
Chico Buarque single that has already been showing sales in the Buenos Aires
area.
Melograf Publishers report that they control the twelve titles of the first
Monkees’ album, just released by RCA in this country. The pubbery has also
Argentina's Best Sellers
This
Week
1
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Last
Week
2 Funeral Del Labrador Barbara & Dick (RCA); Odette Lara
(Trova)
1 tin Homme Et Une Femme (United Artists) Soundtrack (United
Artists) Eddie Barclay, Mireille Mathieu (Disc Jockey); Frank
Pourcel (Odeon)
4 Winchester Cathedral (Edami) New Happiness (CBS); Bull Dogs
(RCA); New Vaudeville Band (Philips); Gus (Music Hall)
3 Strangers In The Night (Fermata) Frank Sinatra (Reprise); Jose
Feliciano, Living Brass, Vicky (RCA); Bert Kaempfert, Elio Roca,
Los Claudios (Polydor); Luis Dimas, Marito (lonzalez (Music
Hall); Andre (Phillips); Bud Shank (Trova); Dalida, Lucio Milena
(Disc Jockey)
5 Tutta La Gente (Ricordi) Ornella Vanoni (CBS)
6 Yellow Submarine (Northern-Fermata) The Beatles, The Shakers
Maurice Chevalier (Oden); The VIP’s (Ala-Nicky); Ronnie Montal-
ban, Los In (CBS); The Knacks (Philips); Los Claudios (Polydor);
Johnny Allon (Microfon)
II Diritto D’Amare (Ricordi) Wilma Goich (CBS)
Merci Cherie (Relay) Caravelli (CBS); Frank Pourcel (Odeon)
'’El Equipo De Jose Carlos Argentino (Ala-Nicky)
How Does That Grab You Darling? Nancy Sinatra (Reprise)
Lara’s Theme (Neumann) Soundtrack, Singing Strings (MGM);
Roger Williams (Kapp); Frank Pourcel (Odeon); Michael Monot,
Lucio Milena (Disc Jockey); Ray Conniff (CBS); Bud Shank
(Trova); A1 Korvin (Prodisa)
Mes Mains Sur Tes Hanches (Korn) Adamo (Odeon)
Bang Bang Sheila (Philips); Eddie Barclay, Dalida (Disc Jockey)
"Siempre Te Recordare (Korn) Yaco Monti (Odeon Pops)
Sin Fe (Korn) Jose Feliciano (RCA)
Olvida (Esqueca) Roberto Carlos (CBS)
La Banda Borracha (Korn) Los Wawanco (Odeon Pops); Tito Al-
berti (Music Hall); Niko Estrada (Disc Jockey); Henry Nelson
(CBS)
Sunny Bobby Hebb (Philips)
El Conductor (Korn) Wawanco (Odeon Pops); Caucanos (Music
Hall); Cinco del Ritmo (Microfon); Henry Nelson (CBS)
Amor Desesperado (Korn) Yaco Monti (Odeon Pops)
Loi^al
15
7
9
8
12
11
13
10
19
16
17
14
Gci^ Box*
AUSTRALIA
At this stage we say goodbye to 1966 and look forward with great antici-
pation to 1967. And at the same time, we send Happy New Year e‘reetinp’<?
from AUSTRALIA to our friends allover the worlfin aH sphere? of the
industry.
1966 wasn’t the most exciting year in the business, but it was no where near
the worst year either. As a matter of fact, the year closed with biggest rush
on record manufacturing that we can remember. ALL plants were working to
full capacity, and, where possible, work was being farmed-out to other com-
panies. And still the demand couldn't be met.
In relation to our best-seller list of the year which appeared in last weeks
issue; we feel a few words of explanation are in order regarding the locally-
produced product.
There would probably have been more local discs shown had they hit
NATI()NALLY when first released. In many instances, a local record will get
going' in its state of origin and do well; then it will progressively move from
State to State thereby NOT SHOWING OUT NATIONALLY and simultane-
ously in all States, but eventually becoming a National success on a strictly
regional basis.
Had such records become popular all over Australia at the same time they
would have shown much more strongly on our list because we run a National
chart.
On behalf of the various companies they handle and represent in this terri-
tory, Leeds Music are out with a big batch of sheet copies that are keeping
the cash registers jumping: “See See Rider” and “Let It Be Me” (Leeds);
“With A Girl Like You” and “Stop, Stop, Stop” (Dick James Music); “Cara-
Lyn” and “Last Train to Clarksville” (Tu-Con Music); “I Can’t Control My-
self,” “Yellow Submarine,” and “Eleanor Rigby” (Northern Songs). On behalf
of Accolade Music, Leeds are distributing the sheet copy of “Bend It,” the
big one for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.
EMI are doing top business with the Stones’ album, “Big Hits . . . High Tide
and Green Grass.” It is being marketed in imported covers which contain a
whole flock of color pictures of the Rolling Stones.
Among the current singles for RCA in Australia are two by Elvis Presley,
“Spinout” c/w “All That I Am” and “If Every Day Was Like Christmas” c/w
“How Would You Like To Be.” Local artist Phil Lanham is represented with
“When I Dance With You” and “Remember Me.” The Youngbloods have
“Grizzly Bear” and “Tears Are Falling.” The new one for Marilyn Maye brings
“Cabaret” and “Two Lovers”; the Mamas and Papas have “Dancing In The
Street” c/w “Words Of Love”; while Henry Mancini is heard with “Hawaii”
and “Driftwood And Dreams,” both from the film “Hawaii” which is now
showing in this country.
Astor recording artists the Dargies, who have been featured on several new
albums released this year, are heard on a new package entitled “The Dargies
On Stage.” As the title indicates, it carries a great deal of the repertoire that
the unit uses in its stage act.
We recently attended a very swingin’ little Christmas party function hosted
by music publisher Jack Argent on behalf of the various publishing companies
within the Leeds Music group. Jack, of course, is tickled pink with the national
success of the Johnny Young records of “Cara-Lyn” and “Let It Be Me.”
As we wrap-up our final column for 1966, we do so with the sincere hope
that 1967 will be the year when an Australian-produced record will become
an international success. It is great to see some enterprising overseas record
companies releasing Australian product, especially American companies.
Australia's Best Sellers
1 Ooh La La (Normie Rowe — Sunshine) Southern Music.
2 ’’Let It Be Me (E.P.) (Johnny Young — Clarion) Various publishers.
3 Friday On My Mind (The Easybeats — Parlophone) J. Albert & Son.
4 No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits — Columbia) Reg Connelly Music.
5 Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys — Capitol) J. Albert & Son.
6 ’'’Spicks And Specks (The Bee Gees — Spin) Belinda Music.
7. ’'’The Loved Ones (E.P.) (The Loved Ones — W & G) Woomera Music.
8 I’m A Boy (The Who — Philips)
9 Winchester Cathedral (New Vaudeville Band — Philips) Southern Music.
10 Bend It (Dave Dee, Dozy, etc., — Philips) Accolade Music.
10 Somewhere My Love (Ray Conniff Singers — CBS) J. Albert & Son.
Asterisk indicates locally produced record.
ARGENTINA (Continued)
overwhelming majority in the new Cuarteto Imperial LP (CBS): ten out of
twelve titles. Spanish title “Vuelo 502” has two new versions: Santy Castel-
lanos on Neptuno and Rosarito La Andaluza on RCA.
Disc Jockey reports good results on its recent outings by Eddie Barclay
(“Un Homme Et Une Femme”) which competed successfully with the sound-
track album from the film. The diskery is releasing a new single by Charles
Aznavour and is also happy with the sales of Rosamel Araya’s new LP, cut
with Los Antonios.
BARCLAY’S BIG BASH— Barclay In-
ternational’s annual ball was held in
Paris Dec. 3rd, with “London” as a
theme. Among the 1500 invited guests
were: (top row, left to right) Mme.
Eddie Barclay, the Duke of Bedford,
Jean Sablon, Henri Varna, Mme.
Volterra, Mme. Line Renaud, M. &
Mme. Tino Rossi & son, Mme. Darry
Cowl, Eddie Barclay (prexy of Bar-
clay Records), Mme. Eddie Barclay,
the Duke of Bedford; (bottom row)
Mile. Tania Constantine, Eddie Bar-
clay, Mme. Eddie Constantine, Eddie
Constantine, Pierre Delanoe, Mme.
Pierre Delanoe, Eddie Barclay, Mme.
Zizi Jeanmaire, the Duke of Bedford,
and Mme. Martine Carol.
1
I
6
u
i
43
IL
Cash Box — December 31, 1966-
InternaHonal Section
<;^france]^
With the end of musicians strike (see international news report page), the
most important events of the week are the results of the Grand Prix de
I’Academie du Disque 1966.
George Chelon and .Jeanne Moreau are the big winners in variety. Chelon
(Pathe Marconi) is a young author and composer. He received the prize for
his second LP with “Morte Saison” and Prelude.” Jeanne Moreau — well known
as a movie star (“Viva Maria”) — got the prize for a new LP album via the
Canetti label (Polydor distributing). This is the complete palmares of the
Academie du Disque Frangais.
Prix Du President De La Republique
French contempory Music: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (Mes-
siaen). Group instrumental a percussion de Strasbourg, Orchestre du Domaine
musical, conducted by Pierre Boulez.
Prix De La Ville De Paris
World greatest realization: Ex-Aequo: La Walkyrie (Wagner). Birgitt Nils-
son, Hans Hotter, Regine Crespin, Orchestra philai’morique de Vienne, con-
ducted by George Solti. Tristan Et Isolde (Wagner). Birgitt Nilsson, Wolfgang
Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Choeurs and Orchestra of Festival de Bayreuth,
conducted by Karl Boehm.
Prix Colette
Poetry: Rimbaud by Laurent Terzieff and Roger Blin. Essay: Saint-Exupery
by Michel Bouquet, Jacques Dacquine, Jean Deschamps. (Hachette I’Encyclo-
pedie sonore).
Prix Arthur Honegger
La Fete De Saint Michel (Decca). Messe de L’Arbresle (Michel Puig) (S.M.).
Les Sept Paroles Du Christ Sur La Croix (Haydn) (Discotheque des dix Mille).
Mighty High by Milt Buckner (Barclay).
Prix Charles Cros
Classical Music: Ex-Aequo: Les Senates Pour Piano (Beethoven) by Wilhelm
Kempff (D.G.G.). L’Age D’or De La Musique Anglaise. The Deller Consort
with Alfred Deller (Guilde international du disque). Varieties: Les Grands
succes De Grorges Brassens (Tape Cartridge) (Musicassette Philips).
Prix Jacques Rouche
Operetta: Bataclan (Offenbach). Boulangeot, Amade and Corazza, Terrasson,
Desailly, Chorale philarmonique Caillard, Orchestra of Jean-Frangois Paillard
conducted by Marcel Couraud (Erato). Melodies: Le Bestiaire, Chansons Vil-
lageoises, Rapsodie Negre, Le Bal Masque, (Poulenc). Jean-Christophe Benoit,
Solistes and Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maryse
Charpentier, conducted by George Pretre (V.S.M.). Vocal group; En Retrou-
vant Le Moyen-Age (B.A.M.). Ballet: Eloge De La Folie (Constant) (Erato).
Prix Des Arts Et Lettres
Classical Music: Missa Solemnis (Beethoven). New Philarmonia Orchestra
and Choeurs conducted by Otto Klemperer (V.S.M.). Contemporary Music:
FRANCE (Continued)
Concerto Pour Violon Et Orchestre (Serge Nigg). Christian Ferras et TOr^es-
tre Philarmonique de TORTF, condutced by Charles Bruck. 24 Preludes Pour
Orcheste (Constant). Orchestre Philarmonique de TORTF conducted by Charles
Bruck (D.G.G.). Theatre: Letartuffe by Fernand Ledoux (Moliere) (Ades).
Testimony: Max-Pol Fouchet raconte . . . (Barclay).
Prix Des Universites De France
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Louis Seigner (Moliere-Lulli) (Guilde Inter-
nationale du disque).. Images De Bertold Brecht by Serge Reggiani and
Catherine Sauvage (D.G.G.). L’Enseignement Au XXeme Siecle by Gaston
Bonheur (Riviera).
Prix Du Conservatoire
L’Art De La Fuque (Bach) (Club Frangais du disque). Marcel Bitsch and
Claude Pascal. Equivalences (Eloy), Madrigal III (Pousseur), La Nuit Trans-
figuree (Schoenberg) (Ades). Trois Concertos Pour Flute Et Oi'chestre (De-
vienne, Clretry, Gluck) (Columbia). Sonates (Prokofiev, Debussy, Isaye, Ravel).
David Oistrakh and Frida Bauer (C.D.M.). Pieces Pour Piano A Quatre Mains
(Debussy). Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky. (Harmonia Mundi Studio Neuer Mu-
sik). Louis Couperin, Champion De Chambonnieres, by Antoine (leofTroy-
Dechaume, Clavecin (Columbia). Oeuvres Pour Orgues (Integrale) (Nicolas de
Grigny). Marie-Claire Alain aux grandes orgues de Sarlat (Erato).
Prix De LTnstitut De Musicologie
Chants Berberes De Kabylie (B.A.M.).
Prix Des Phonotheques
Ancient Music: Anthologie De La Musique Portugaise XVIIeme etXVIIIeme
Siecles (Philips). Folk Music: Chansons Du Pays De France n°2. Serge Kerval
(B.A.M.). Folk songs: Flamenco. Manitas de Plata (Philips).
Prix Francis Carco
Humour: 12 Chansons A La (Pour Les) Coq(s) (Ades). Omajakeno Poems,
songs of Raymond Queneau (C.D.M.). Children: Ex-Aequo: Titane Et Bou-
grenette by j. P. Chabrol (Barclay). Babar, Le Petit Elephant (J. de Brunoff,
F. Poulenc). L’Histoire Du Petit Tailleur (Grimm, Tibor Harsanyi) by Peter
Ustinov (V.S.M.). Dance Music: Ragtime Claude Bolling; (Philips). Foreign
singer: Chansons Catalanes. “Raimon a TOlympia” (C.B.S.). Chanson 1966.
Georges Chelon (Pathe). Jeanne Moreau (Canetti).
French EP TOP TEN
1 Les Playboys (Jacques Dutronc) Vogue; Alfa
2 L’Heure de La Sortie (Sheila) Philips; Carrere-Breton
3 Noir C’est Noir (Johnny Hallyday) Philips; Barclay
4 J’Ai Peur (Enrico Macias) Pathe; Cirta
5 La Chanson de Lara (John William) Polydor; France Melodie
6 En Bandouliere (Adamo) Voix de son maitre; Pathe Marconi
7 La Chanson de I^ara (Les compagnons de la Chanson) CBS; France
Melodie
8 Paris Brule t’il (Mireille Mathieu) Barclay
9 L’incendie a Rio (Sacha Distel) EMI; Prosadis
10 Celine (Hugues Auffray) Barclay
7
r
I
V
]
I
I
]
f
*,
(
PALAIS DES FESTIVALS
CANNES — FRANCE
MEET AT THE MIDEM
1st
INTERNATIONAL RECORD AND
MUSIC PUBLISHING MARKET
You MUST be present at the AAIDEAA
You will meet there
FROM 30 COUNTRIES
From Monday January 30
to Saturday February 4,
1967
• 300 companies
• 1,000 professionals:
FOR 1967 SAVE RUNNING AROUND THE WORLD
DO ALL YOUR BUSINESS IN 6 DAYS
IN SUNNY CANNES
• Executives and A & R managers
of Records companies
• Music publishers
• Show-business organizers
• Artists
• Agents
• Representatives of the trade and
information press
• Heads of light entertainment radio
programmes
• Producers of light entertainment
TV programmes
Request for documentation and all correspondence are to be addressed to:
MIDEM, General Management, 9 Rue Magellan, 75 PARIS 8°— FRANCE. Telephone: 359.35.35— Cable: MIDEM-PARIS 042
Cash Box — December 31, 1966-
International Section
49
is Johnny Jordaan coming back? The still renowned Amsterdam folk singer,
discovered by and reaching the big time through Bovema’s HMV label in the
mid-50’s, made a highly-successful surprise appearance in Corrie Brokken’s
TV show. Jordaan, reassured and convincing as never before, is getting a lot
of attention in the Dutch music press nowadays. Bovenia’s A&R man John
Moring commented “We’re busy recording Jordaan and expect to have a new
album with an entirely new repertoire out in the course of this month.”
Bovema’s His Master’s Voice label last week released two new albums now
on its Angel December catalog: Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” under Sir John
Barbirolli and Mozart's “Don Giovanni” under the baton of Otto Klemperer.
On Dec. 10th HMV’s top comedian Toon Hermans was appointed honorary
member of the Royal Dutch Federation of Harmony and Brassbands, which
saw its annual congi-ess in Utrecht highlighted by Toon personally conducting
one of his own march tunes. Reel Kruyze, Bovema label manager (singles),
reports that the Beach Boys’ latest hit, “Good Vibrations,” is still selling
extremely well in this country. Both the gi’oup and the record were featured
in a film report on Vara’s Fan Club TV series.
CBS’ John Williams, the 25-year old world-famous guitarist, gave two out-
standingly successful recitals in Amsterdam and The Hague. Guitar music
lovers were carried away by his performance and cheered John Williams to
the roof, 'fhe long-awaited 2-record set of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with
Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and various
soloists (Erna Spoorenberg, Gwyneth Jones, a.o.) has been released by CBS
this week. This handsomely-packed set is certain to attract attention. Mr.
Hans Citroen, artistic director of the Hague Residency Orchestra, will com-
mence a series for local radio station entitled “A Profile Of Bruno Walter.”
The entire Bruno Walter catalog being released on CBS consists of 43 albums.
One of the hottest CBS albums at the moment is “Somewhere My Love” by
Ray Conniff and the Singers. Immediately after its initial release, it became
one of the fastest-selling LP’s in Holland. In the very near future CBS is
going to release a new album by the Kilima Hawaiians, famous local group,
entitled “Moonlight Over Hawaii.” Their first CBS album, entitled “Farewell
Hawaii” is still a bestseller in many countries.
Warner Bros. /Reprise surprised Robert Oeges and Hans E. Kellerman,
managing directors of Negram/ Delta with two new LP’s of Dean Martin:
“Dean Martin Christmas Album” and Dino’s “TV Show,” doing very well
because of his very successful show on the Dutch A.V.R.O.-T.V. Sammy Davis
may hit again with his new LP “Sammy Davis Sings.” Three new singles are
sure to reach the charts: Dean Martin’s “Let The Good Times In”; Peter Paul
and Mary’s “For Baby” and a rush release of the new much-promising Ameri-
can group Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much To Dream.” Dutch group the
Motions appeared at the Olympia in Paris last week.
Holland's Best Sellers
This
Week
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Last
Week
3 Friday On My Mind (Easybeats/U.A.) (U.A. Music-Altona
Amsterdam)
•5 Green Green Grass Of Home (Tom Jones/Decca) (Altona,
Amsterdam)
1 No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits/Columbia) (Connelly-Basart
N.V. / Amsterdam )
2 Sammy (Ramses Shaffy Philips) ( Basart/ Amsterdam )
7 Gimme Some Lovin’ (Spencer Davis Group/Fontana) ( Essex-
Basart Amsterdam)
— Dead End .Street (Kinks/Pye) (Belinda/Amsterdam )
4 Stop Stop .Stop ( Hollies /Parlophone)
6 Little Man (Sonny & Cher/ Atlantic) (Belinda/ Amsterdam)
9 Distant Drums (Jim Reeves'RCA) (Internationale Muziek Co./
Amsterdam)
— Touch (Outsiders/Relax) ( Intertone-Basart/ Amsterdam)
Great Britain's Best Seilers
This
Last
Weeks
Week
Week
On Chart
1
1
6
Green Green Grass — Tom Jones (Decca) Burlington
2
2
6
*What Would I Be — Val Doonican (Decca) Marvel
3
5
3
Morningtown Ride — The Seekers (Columbia) Compass
4
15
2
Sunshine Superman — Donovan (Pye) Southern
5
6
4
What Becomes of The Brokenhearted — Jimmy Ruffin (Tam-
la Motown) Belinda
6
11
3
You Keep Me Hanging On — The Supremes (Tamla Mo-
town) Carlin
7
3
8
Good Vibrations — The Beach Boys (Capitol) Immediate
8
7
4
*Dead End Street — The Kinks (Pye) Davray
9
4
5
*My Mind’s Eye — The Small Faces (Decca) Robbins
10
10
4
Friday On My Mind — The Easybeats — (United Artists)
United Artists
11
8
8
*Gimme Some Lovin’ — Spencer Davis (Fontana) Island
12
19
2
*Save Me — Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (Fontana)
Lynn
13
16
2
If Every Day Was Like Xmas — Elvis Presley (RCA) Cri-
terion
14
9
5
Just One Smile — Gene Pitney (Stateside) A. Schroeder
15
13
8
*Semi Detached Suburban Mr. James — Manfred Mann (Fon-
tana) Carter Lewis
-Local copyrights
Top Ten LP's
1 The Sound of Music — Soundtrack
(RCA)
2 Come The Day — The Seekers
( Columbia )
3 Best of The Beachboys — The
Beachboys (Capitol)
(^ntle Shades of Val Doonican —
;Decca)
5 Distant Drums — Jim Reeves
■RCA)
6 Golden Hits — Dusty Springfield
(Philips)
7 Revolver — The Beatles (Parlo-
phone)
8 Big Hits — The Rolling Stones
(Decca)
9 Collection of Beatles Oldies — The
Beatles (Parlophone)
10 Hand Clapping Foot Stamping
Geno Washington — Geno Wash-
ington (Piccadilly)
News from Companhia Brasileira De Discos (Philips) is that the popular
and talented vocal group Os Cariocas (who were so successful in the States)
is leaving on a Mexico tour for TV and personal appearances. Their latest al-
bum for the Polydor label contains such current hits as “A Banda” and “Lunik
9” and is enjoying good sales. Composer Caetano Velloso and chantress Gal
Costa have been pacted by the company and will soon appear together in an
album called “Apresentando Caetano e Gal.” Velloso penned winning numbers
“Boa Palavra” and “Um Dia.” ... A new label will be launched by CBD next
January — Fontana — first disc will be “Sucessos,” with Nicholas & Seu Con-
junto.
Two more singles recently released by new label “Au” are heading for good
positions in the local charts: “Flor Maior” by the. Pequenos Cantores De Sao
Paulo and “La Vem O Bloco” by Leny Eversong. Both albums released with
the Sao Paulo Festival of the instrumental group Os Versateis are still head-
ing for No. 1 spots.
From Fermata we hear that: Oslain Galvao, who is doing very well with his
single for RGE (“Tereza”), is preparing repertoire for his new album all from
the Fermata pubbery. Dee jay Ferreira Martins (Radio Piratininga) is being-
approached by several diskeries — as a result of his great popularity — to cut a
disc as a singer with material repertoire also from the Fermata pubbery.
After a successful Latin American tour, teen-canter Sergio Murilo retuims
to his disc activity at RCA with a carefully-prepared album of compositions
by the new generation and four versions of international hits. Popular chanter
Carlos Gonzaga (over two million discs sold) appears again with a teen-music
single. Late Italian tenor Mario Lanza is remembered by RCA in a specially-
mounted album for Brazilian RCA.
CBS Do Brasil comes next with a few quickies: an album by new “sambista”
Ary Vilela is already making noise saleswise. Paulo Bob will be present in
the next Carnival with some of his recordings. Busy teen-group Renato & Seus
Blue Caps have a new album ready for release; the group’s discs are being re-
quested from as far off as Australia. The recently-released album by teen idol
Roberta Carlos is selling in a way that indicates it will be on the charts soon.
So will the singles, mostly “Namoradinha De Um Amigo Meu” and “Eu Te
Darei O Ceu” which promise to be absolute best-sellers.
Based on the big success of Deny & Dino’s number “Coruja” — which reached
first spot on the local charts — Odeon released an album from the vocal two-
some with that name. Mexican “bolero” rhythms — very popular here— appear
in a serial album by Irany & Seu Conjunto, entitled “Boleros Em Surdina No.
10.” The agreement with British London label is assuring a constant export
of successful Odeon discs all over the world, in albums cut for that purpose.
Brazil's Best Sellers
i This
I Week
! 1
I
2
3
1
8
9
10
11
12
13
11
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
1
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
2
3
.5
6
Last
Week
2 *Disparada (Ed. Porta-Estandarte) Jair Rodrigues/Philips (CBD);
Ely Camargo (Chantecler) ; Geraldo Vandre/RCA Victor
1 *A Banda (Fermata) Chico Buarque/RGE; Nara Leao/Philips;
Pequenos Cantores de Sao Paulo/AU; Altamiro Carrilho/Copaca-
bana
3 Lara’s Theme (Todamerica) A1 Korvin/Fermata; The Jordans/
Copacabana
7 The More I See You (Todamerica) Chris Montez/A&M (Fer-
mata )
1 Monday, Monday (Vitale) Mama’s & Papa’s/Dunhill (RCA)
6 Esqueca/Forget Him (Vitale) Robert Carlos/CBS; Gary Lewis ^
RCA Victor
5 Meu Bem/Girl (Fermata) Ronnie Von/Polydor (CBD)
10 *Ebrio De Amor (Edicoes RCA) Lindomar Castilho/Continental
2 *A Carta (Fermata) Erasmo Carlos/RGE
11 *Tijolinho (Vitale) Bobby de Carlo/Mocambo (FDR)
8 Pare O Casamento (Aberbach) Wanderlea/CBS
14 *Agora t, Tarde (Fermata) Marcos Roberto/Continental
13 Yellow Submarine/Subarino Amarelo (Fermata) The Beatles/
Odeon; Os Vips/Continental
9 Strangers In The Night (Fermata) Frank Sinatra/Reprise (CBD)
13 California Dreamin’ (Vitale) Mama’s & Papa’s/Dunhill (RCA)
16 *0 Adeus (Fermata) Ary Sanches/Continental
19 *Nao Va Embora (Fermata) Barros de Alencar/Chantecler
18 Morrer Ou Viver (Vitale) Wanderley Cardoso/Copacabana
24 Nao Te Perdoarei (n.p.) Morgan/Continental
17 *A Partida (Edigoes RCA) Os Iguais/RCA Victor
21 Eu Te Darei Bern Mais/Io Ti Daro Di Piu (Fermata) Moacyr
Franco/Copacabana
20 Merci Cherie (Edigoes RCA) Udo Jurgens/Vogue-Mocambo
(FDR); Matt Monro/Capitol (Odeon)
— *Pedestre (n.p.) Nerino Silva/Continental
15 *Vem Chegando A Madrugada (Nossa Terra) Jair Rodrigues/
Philips (CBD)
23 Pobre Menina/Hang On Sloopy (Mellin) Leno & Lilian^CBS; Jan
& Dean/RCA
*Original Brazilian Copyright
Brazirs TOP TWELVE LP^S
1 Revolver — The Beatles/Odeon
4 Dr. Zhivago — Original Soundtrack/MGM (CBD)
2 O Sorriso De Jair — Jair Rodrigues/Philips (CBD)
3 A Banda — Chico Buarque de Hollanda/RGE
7 Viva O Festival — Several Brazilian Artists/Au (FDR i
6 As 14 Mais, Vol. 18 — Several Brazilian Artists/CBS
9 Chapeuzinho Vermelho — Jet Blacks/Chantecler
5 Meu Bern — Ronnie Von/Polydor (CBD)
— Cass, John, Michelle, Dennis — Mama’s & Papa’s/Dunhill (RCA)
— Studio 17 — Os Jordans /Copacabana
— Uma Noite No Urso Branco — Os Versateis/Au (FDR)
— Animalisms — The Animals/Odeon
Top Six Double Compacts
2 Dr. Zhivago — Frank Pourcel/Odeon
1 California Dreamin’ — Mama’s & Papa’s/Dunhill (RCA)
3 Love Me, Please Love Me — Michel PolnarefF/Disques Az (Fer-
mata-Mocambo )
4 Pare O Casmento — Wanderlea/CBS
4 El Presidente — Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass/ A&M (Fermata)
— Canta, Mas Nao Mente — Guto & Moacyr Franco/Copacabana
50
Cash Box — December 31, 1966'
International Section
DENMARK
As to sales the weeks before Christmas, most trade people here in Denmark
appear very satisfied. No one has the feeling that they were poor, as answers
ranged from “Normal” to “extra-ordinary.”
Dansk Grammofonpladeforlag is out with the first LP album done by local
group Defenders, titled “Looking At You.” Among other local releases is a
new single with Caesar, an EP with Doul Dissing, and a number of imported
LP’s, EP’s and singles on Kenwood, Supraphon, Musidisc, Epic, Roulette and
Septima labels.
Latest releases from Mprks Musikforlag includes “Dead End Street” with
the Kinks on Pye and “The Shadow Knows” with Charlatans on Kapp.
HNF (Hede Nielsens Fabriker A/S) rushed out a new Elvis Presley LP
including the songs from the flipper “California Holiday.”
}
I
FINLAND
Coming on very strong are “No Milk Today” with Herman’s Hermits on
Columbia and “Stop! Stop! Stop!” with the Hollies on Parlophone, both de-
buting on the charts here this month.
Latest local releases from Scandia-Musiikki Oy include two new singles at
Sonet. Heikki Aarva is doing “Bukarest” and “Kun Kohtaat Ystavan.” Piro
Soujanen has done “Ikkunassa Illalla” and “Syntymapaivavalssi.” On Metro-
nome Siw Malmkvist has done “1 Couldn’t Live Without Your Love” b/w a
Swedish tune in Finnish.
NORWAY
Newcomer on the charts here this week is the Kinks on Pye with “Dead
End Street.”
Latest releases from A/S Nera include “Why Not Stop And Dig It While
You Can” with Barry McGuire, “Look Through My Window” with Mama’s &
Papa’s, and “Forget Domani” with Pero Como.
Latest releases from Arne Bendiksen A/S include Ase Thoresen on Triola
with “En Gang, Et Sted” (being “Somewhere, My Love” in Norwegian),
Vanguards — top selling group here — has done “Min Barndoms By” (Green,
Green Grass Of Home), and Kirsti Sparboe doing “Edelweiss” and “Have
You Ever Been Lonely ’ in Noiwegian accompanied by Arne Bendiksen on the
mouth-organ.
I Norsk Phonogram A/S (NPA) is strongly promoting Beatmakers, a quintet
^ from Oslo currently coming on strong with “I Remember When 1 Loved Her”
I on Philips.
'I SWEDEN
B Second Swedish artist to appear on the CBS label will be Jan Malmsjd,
who just signed a contract with AB Philips-Sonora for the CBS label. First
local artist at CBS was Lars Lonndahl, who will have two singles and an EP
on the market in a few weeks.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich will be touring Scandinavia between
I Dec. 31 and Jan. 7. Manfred Mann is also contracted for Scandinavia about
the same time.
Torsten Ehrenmark, popular disc-jockey in Swedish Radio, now has his
own LP on Dux. On Philips, Gunnel & Jan has done “Brazos River” and “Cot-
ton Pickin’ Hands” in Swedish.
Karusell Grammofon AB has started plugging the Australian group Easy
Beats, now out on United Artists with “Friday On My Mind”/“Made My
Bed.”
Cash Box Scandinavian office takes this opportunity to wish all the best for
1967 to all known and unknown friends throughout the world.
Denmark's Best Sellers
This
W eek
1
2
3
6
7
8
9
10
Last Weeks
Week On Chart
1 8 En Tusindfryd 1 Min Hand (En Prastkrage I Min Hand)
(Keld & Donkeys/HMV) Imudico A/S, Denmark
2 8 Traed An Ved Makronerne (Hitmakers/Philips) Selection
of songs — no publisher
3 16 *Ved Landsbyens Gadekaer (Keld & Donkeys/HMV) Warny
Music, Denmark
1 8 Little Man (Sonny & Cher/ Atlantic) Imudico A/S, Den-
mark
5 3 *Der Er lys I Lygten (Defenders/Sonet) Wilhelm Han-
sen, Musik-Forlag, Denmark
7 I I Can’t Control Myself (Troggs/Fontana ) Multitone A/S,
Denmark
6 3 Stop! Stop! Stop! (Hollies/Pailophone) Multitone A/S,
Denmark
9 3 Sunny (Cher/Liberty ) Reg Connelly, Musik-Foidag A/S,
Denmark
8 3 Marianne (Hooten Singers/Polar) Polar Music AB, Swe-
den
10 1.7 Yellow Submarine ( Beatles/Parlophone) Multitone A/S,
Denmark
Norway's Best Sellers
This
Week
1
2
3
I
5
6
7
8
9
10
Last Weeks
Week On Chart
11
.7 No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits/Columbia) Reg Con-
nelly, Musik-Forlag A/S, Denmark
1 Good Vibrations (Beach Boys/Capitol) Sweden Music AB,
Sweden
6 Edelweiss (Julie Andrews/RCA Victor) Thore Ehrling Mu-
sik AB, Sweden
8 I Can’t Control Myself (Troggs/Fontana) Sonora Musik-
forlags AB, Sweden
13 Little Man (Sonny & Cher*/ Atlantic ) Edition Odeon, Swe-
den
9 Distant Drums (Jim Reeves/RCA Victor) Acuff-Rose
Scandia, Denmark
7 I Natt Jag Drbmde (Last Night 1 Had A Strangest
Dream) (Hep Stars/Olga) Musikforlaget Essex AB, Swe-
den
1 Dead End Street (Kinks/Pye)
6 *Huldresl^tten (Ole Ellesfsaeter/Columbia) No publisher
•1 Vid Din Sida (Sven Ingvars/Svensk-American) Seven
Brothers Music Inc./Edition Odeon, Sweden
Cash Box — December 31, 1966-
■International Section
51
COIN MACHINES & VENDING
Cash Box Editorial
Twelfth Root, Rear
Most editorials written at this season usually begin,
“As the year draws to a close . . whereas, to be truth-
ful, they should begin, “As our editorial staff slumps into
exhausted sleep . .
Sitting in an office on the Twelth Floor, Rear, before a
typewriter, a paper cup full of cold coffee nearby waiting
to be spilled, we recall an anecdote from the typewriter
of a great journalist. Gene Fowler, concerning a missing
editorial.
It was in New York, on a Christmas Eve in the 1920s,
when the staff of a morning paper repaired to a local tav-
ern (nowadays it would be called a lounge) after putting
the paper to bed, ready to relax and carouse into the
dawn. A copyboy came bursting through the swinging
doors, rushed up to the managing editor and said breath-
lessly, “Oh, sir,’’ (copyboys were respectful in those
days) “there is no editorial!’’ The crashing of a hundred
dropped drop-glasses punctuated the awful news.
Unruffled, the managing editor carefully donned his
Chesterfield coat, set his bowler atop his head and
walked across the street to the offices of the endangered
tabloid, followed by a crowd of reporters. Marching in to
the “city room,’’ he closed the door to his office, took off
his hat and coat, set himself before his typewriter and,
after a moment of concentration, attacked the keys with
gusto. The reporters waited outside, hardly daring to
breathe, while the copyboy twisted his hat in his fingers.
After fifteen minutes, the managing editor rose with
two sheets of paper in his hand and beckoned the copy-
boy forward. He opened the door, presented the lad with
the pages, donned his hat and coat and marched back to
the tavern. As the copyboy dashed by the reporters, one
of them caught him by the arm and grabbed the pieces
of paper. The other reporters crowded over his shoulder
to read the words that would make the morning edition
a professional and artistic whole.
They stood agog, for lo, there were not words, but a
single word, repeated over and over. The word was;
“Nevertheless.”
Nevertheless, it has been an eventful year for the coin
machine trade and so with Twelfth Floor, Rear. There is
nothing quite like holding the front news page open until
the last minute on a Thursday night, hoping that the
mails or the phone will deliver that Important Story, nor
is there anything quite like jumping into a car and chas-
ing the printer’s truck to Connecticut, nothing quite like
cursing and praying over a cantankerous camera to get
that Important Picture, nor is there anything like the sud-
den silence of the office after the copy has gone to the
presses, the last cigarette and cup of coffee before going
home.
After a particularly heavy issue it is sometimes neces-
sary and refreshing to stand on the balcony and watch
the traffic going by on Broadway and, the lights glowing.
From the balcony it is possible to look over to Tenth Ave-
nue and on some nights, one would swear that Chicago
and California can be seen, with all the land between. On
such a night, reporters, editors and other folk relax by
having a beer and playing the jukebox or game at the lo-
cal, or the nearest, tavern. We do this not out of a sense
of duty, but simply because it is fun.
Tonight, as the holiday and the New year comes, we
look back on the written and spoken words, the sounds
and sights of the coin machine industry in 1966; there
are memories of crises and comedies, things done and
yet to do.
They are two particular breeds, journalists and coin
machine men; both devoted to their professions, simply
because, once engaged in it, they find they cannot get
away from it. It may be demanding, possessive and some-
times frustrating, but it is also goofy, great and grati-
fying.
So, from the Twelfth Floor, Rear, we send to the en-
tire industry holiday greetings, a glass of cheer and four
choruses of “Auld Lang Syne.” It’s been grand.
II
■
1
L.
52
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
Steiger & Wilson Drop In On Valley
Ben Gordon (left) presi-
dent of Valley Distribu-
tors, poses with supper
club star Julie Wilson
and Tel-A-Sign chief A.
A. Steiger at recent
Scopitone distributor ap-
pointee party. Valley
will handle the audio-
visual for Connecticut
and Massachusetts.
Confusion Remedied
Complete Details On
Last week a story appeared in Cash
Box on the destruction of the J. F.
Frantz manufacturing offices in Chi-
cago. Complete details were not avail-
able at the time and errors in
the story may have caused confusion,
which we regret. Below is the original
copy lately received from the U.S.
Mails.
CHICAGO— A 3-11 fire ravaged the
building housing J. F. Frantz Manu-
facturing Company, producer of coin-
operated counter amusement games,
early Saturday morning, December 10,
completely devastating equipment and
fixtures, and causing a temporary de-
lay in production and shipping. John
F. Frantz, president and general man-
ager, sadly I’eported that the destruc-
tive fire, which started in a nearby
building, was at first apparently
brought under control by the fire
fighters.
Frantz Factory Fire
However, undetected smoldering
embers re-ignited later in the day
completing the devastation. Three fire-
men were overcome by smoke inhala-
tion and otherwise injured by falling
debris during the struggle to contain
the blaze.
In a happier note Frantz, who had
located his plant in the burned out
structure at 1940 West Lake Street
in Windy City since early in 1947, ad-
vised that he has already acquired a
suitable building nearby at 2010 West
Lake Street. His new headquarters
covers more than 30,000 square feet
of factory space.
Frantz and his employees are rush-
ing to complete an early removal of
usable equipment. Presently, however,
all production and shipping on Fra’^tz
coin-operated counter amusement
games has been suspended. He will
shortly announce a resumption of ac-
tivity in his factory in Cash Box.
South Carolina Op
Wins Pool Case In
State Supreme Court
COLUMBIA, S. C. — The State Su-
preme Court of South Carolina has
found in an operators’ favor in a case
involving taxation of coin operated
pool tables.
Presiding Judge John Grimball re-
versed the decision of a lower court
which would have required operator
U. G. Bryant and Melody Music Co.
to pay taxes on coin-operated pool
tables located at a cafe known as
Chris and Gene’s.
The Attorney General of the state,
Daniel McLeod, had coi^tended that
the placing of the tables in Chris and
Gene’s made it “a pool hall” under
the existing state tax laws and was
therefore subject to taxation under
Sections 5-50i (6) and 5-513 of the
1962 Code of Laws. The appellants
claimed that the primary busi-ess of
Chris and Gene’s is the servinsr of
food and drink, that the pool tables
are simply optional amusement
games, and that therefore they were
not required to pay anv extra taxes.
Section 5-501 (1) defines a billiard
room or a pocket billiard room as,
“Any room, hall, huildi»ig or place
kent for the purpose of oner-ating
billiard or pocket billiard tables for
the nurpose of permitting eames to
be nlaved thereon for profit.”
Having reversed the decision of the
lower court on the grounds stated, the
Court said it was “unnecessary for
us to consider the constitutional ques-
tion raised by the anpellants.” Bryant
had claimed that he was being de-
prived of his property without due
process of law.
The appellant’s case was handled by
Peter Hyman, a local attorney, who
has also acted as counsel for the
South Carolina Coin Operators’ Asso-
ciation. Complete text of the Court’s
opinion appears on Pages 54 and 55.
No A.T.E. Next Year,
Says Singleton: Will
Keep To Old Schedule
J. SINGLBTON
Secrefory-Genera/ Mgr.
LONDON — John Singleton, secretary
& general manager of the Amusement
Caterers Association, has announced
that after much consideration it has
been decided that the Amusement
Trades Exhibition will, in future, re-
vert to the old timing of January.
This means that the next A.T.E.
will be held at Alexandra Palace from
16th thru 18th January 1968. There
will be no A.T.E. next year.
The recent changeover to Novem-
ber was experimental and although it
was thought it would give manufac-
turers more time to meet the delivery
date for orders received for the Eas-
ter holidays (the start of the coin ma-
chine rush) jt proved otherwise.
Operators and distributors who at-
tended the A.T.E. were less willing
than usual to place orders so far in
advance of the season — hence the re-
version to the January date in 1968.
A Reoort From London
New Pence Expensive to British Ops
In an effort to bait the fluctuation of its currency, and to make things simpler
all round. Great Britain has decided to switch to the Decimal Svstem in grad-
intr its coinage. This means the disannearance of familiar coins, including those
used by British coinmen, who will have to retool. They are not happy over the
prospect and this Report from London tells why.
Solid State SRO: Runyon
NEW YORK — A class on Solid State
and its application in the new AMI
MMl Music Merchant Phonograph
was conducted by Art Seglin (Rowe’s
field service engineer in the Eastern
Region) on Wednesday, Dec. 14th at
the New York office of the Runyon
Sales Co.
Those who attended included: Loy
Wolberg, Joel Hochberg, Sid Gerber,
Daniel Cioffi, James Gough, Ruben
Figuero, Bruch Haber and Joe Tilotta
from Runyon; operators and their
service personnel present included:
Hector Colon, Sam Kramer, Leo
Rosenberg, Neal Rosenberg, Max
Krull, Moe Stein, Karl Williams, Sam
Lerner, Phil Kaplan, Ralph Schneider,
Carmine Abbatiello, Irving Meltzer,
Roger GetzofF, Fred Collav, Jr. and
Fred Collay, Sr., Buddy Dickerman,
Henry Schwartz, Bernard Stecker,
Harry Zall, Murray Wollman, Sv Ha-
ber, Mike Saperstein, Raymond Digio-
vine, Harold Monroe, John Trapani,
Bernard Blum, Robert Weisbart, Phil-
lip Schwartz, William Goetz, Herb
Cook and Jerome Levine.
MOA's Final Score: 31 1
CHICAGO — MOA managing director
Fred Granger announced last week
that the final tally in the MOA mem-
bership drive, which began January 1
and closed the night of October 30th,
is three hundred eleven — sixty-one
over the original quota of two hun-
dred and fifty.
“This is one of our finest achieve-
ments,” said Granger, “and it dem-
onstrates the capacity of MOA to per-
form; it shows our ability to grow
and by growing extend the benefits of
MOA membership to more and more
operators. Outstanding jobs were done
by committee chairmen, co-chairmen
and individual workers, but the total
performance is, I think, one of the
most thrilling events ever to take
place in the industry.”
Meanwhile, president James Toli-
sano and board chairman John Wal-
lace said that the next board meeting
will take place in Washington D.C.,
probably in March. Other cities were
considered as meeting sites, thev said,
but the copyright problem finally de-
termined the selection of Washington.
LONDON — The system to be adopted
when Britain swit<^hes to decimal
coinage in 1971 has now been outlined
in a Government White Paper. It is
based on the £1 being the major unit
of currency divided into 100 ‘new
pennies’.
Despite pressure from many ouar-
ters to make 10/- the basic unit di-
vided into cents the Government
White Paper states that the practical
advantages of retaining the .fil ar’e
decisive and are not based primarily
on the fact that the £1 is an interna-
tional currency. There will be six new
denominations in the new coinage as
follows:
Denominations
Value
Metal
Half New Penny
1.2d
Bronze
One New Penny
2.4d
Bronze
Two New Pence
4.8d
Bronze
Five New Pence
1/-
Cunro-Nickel
Ten New Pence
2/-
Cunro-Nickel
Fifty New Pence
10/-
Metal to be
announced
The ‘Fifty New Pence’ coin will
eventually renlact the 10/- note. The
present £1, £5 and £10 notes will stay
in use but the half-crown, sixpence,
three-penny piece, the nresent nen-
nies and half-pennies will go. There
will be a transitional period from
February 1971 of up to two years
during which both the new and old
currencies will be available side by
side. The switch will mean the mint-
ing of nearly 9,000 million decimal
coins.
It will also mean the conversion of
between two and three million busi-
ness machines and about the same
number of slot machines including
telephone coin boxes, gas and elec-
tricity meters etc.
Members of the coin machine in-
dustry view the Government’s pro-
posals for decimal coinage with con-
siderable regret. Along with a num-
ber of other business organizations
the A.T.A. plan to oppose whole-
heartedly the adoption of the £1
rather that the 10/- system. The main
reasons being firstly that the new
half-penny which is really the equiv-
alent of the present nenny is to be
ridiculously small. Although new ma-
chines can be constructed to take any
size coin the conversion of old ma-
chines will be very difficult indeed.
If the 10/- method had been adopted
the bigger size penny would be in op-
eration.
Secondly, the adoption of the £I
system means the disappearance of
the sixpenny piece now much used in
the coin machine and vending indus-
tries and manufacturers will have to
bear this conversion in mind when
producing new machines. The 10/-
system would have given a 5(j coin
equivalent to the 6d, thus necessitat-
ing only two bronze coins of 2(t and
1^. With the £1 system in operation
and the 6d deleted three bronze coins
will be needed.
In order to avoid having a large
coin for the highest denomination it
will be necessary to have a very small
coin for the lowest denomination.
Under the 10/- system the new penny
equivalent would have been the same
size as the proposed 2.4 new penny
(the size of the present 6d) which
would simplify conversion of old ma-
chines. Other problems involved in-
clude the question of pay-outs whic’n
can now be given to the value of 1/-
in cash-penny machines having odds
of 12-1.
It will now be necessary to decide
whether the odds continue at 12-1
or will have to be reduced to 10-1
necessitating a revision of the Gam-
ing law's.
Picture Clear, But Names Out of Focus
Apologies all round. The
picture at right taken at
the A.T.E. in London and
printed in our issue of
i7th December was in-
correctly captioned. The
personalities from left to
right are: Bill O’Donnell
(president of Bally Man-
ufacturing Co.) ; Cyril
Shack and Michael Green
(directors of Phono-
graphic Equipment Dis-
tributors Ltd.).
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
53
Exclusive Rowe AMI Distributor
Eo.Pa. - S. Jersey - Dei. • Md. • D.C.
DaVlD ROSen inc
155 N. RROAD ST.. PHILA., PA. 1f123
Phene: (215) CEnter 2-2900
FILMS AVAILABLE FOR
AUDIO-VISUAL OPERATORS
it Select from over 750 color sound
movies at only $15 per reel
■k Suitable for all makes & models
Send for free catalog on letterhead
WRITE e WIRE e PHONE
before you
buy it!
' Minimum lease
— 25 weeks
• Average cost
$20 per week
• Films included
in rental — over
750 film titles
• All moneys can
be applied to
purchase
• Immediate
delivery
IT'S AUDIO-VISUAL AIL THE WAY WITH THE
ONLY 2-IN-1 COMBINATION OF MOVIES &
MUSIC IN A SINGLE UNIT
The Complete Text of the Supreme
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court
Melody Music Co., Inc., and U. G. Bryant,
individually and doing business as Chris
and Gene’s Appellants,
V.
Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General for the
State of South Carolina, 0. W. Livingston,
Robert C. Wasson, Sam N. Burts, J. A. Calhoun,
Jr. and Walter W. Lewis, constituting the
South Carolina Tax Commission, and Sheppard
Griffith, Sheriff of Richland County, repre-
senting law enforcement of the class, Respondents.
Appeal From Richland County
John Grimball, Judge
Opinion No. 18583
Filed December 5, 1966
REVERSED AND REMANDED
Hyman & Morgan, of Florence, for appellants.
Attorney General Daniel R. McLeod, Assistant Attorney General
Joseph C. Coleman and Joseph D. Sapp, all of Columbia, for
respondents.
MOSS, C.J.: Melody Music Co., Inc.
distributes and places on location bil-
liard or pocket billiard tables, meas-
uring not more than three and one-
half feet in width and seven feet in
length, in service stations, grocery
stores or other places in which the
principal business is something other
than the operation of billiard or pock-
et billiard tables. One of these tables
is located and operates in a restau-
rant owned by U. G. Bryant, who op-
ei'ates a business known as Chris and
Gene’s. A license for the operation of
this table was granted by the South
Carolina Tax Commission pursuant to
Section 5-665 of the Code.
Melody Music Co., Inc. and U. G.
Bryant, trading as aforesaid, the ap-
pellants herein, instituted this action
under the “Uniform Declaratory
Judgments Act”, Sections 10-2001, et
seq., 1962 Code of Laws, against the
Attorney General of the State, the
South Carolina Tax Commission and
the Law Enforcement Officers of this
State as a class, the respondents here-
in, seeking an injunction pendente life
and permantly from enforcing Sec-
tions 5-501 (6) and 5-513 of the Code,
asserting that such statutes have no
application to billiard or pocket bil-
liard tables licensed under Section
5-665 of the Code. The appellants fur-
ther contend that the enforcement of
such statutes would deny them the
equal protection of the law and de-
prive them of their property without
due process of law. The answer of the
respondents allege the applicability of
the aforesaid statutes to the operation
of the billiard or pocket billiard table
either owned or operated by the ap-
pellants. The unconstitutionality of
the statutes was also denied.
This case came on for a hearing be-
fore the Honorable John Grimball,
presiding judge, upon an agreed stip-
ulation of facts. After hearing oral
arguments and giving consideration to
written briefs filed by the parties, an
order was filed in which it was held
that the injunction pendente lite pre-
viously issued be dissolved and the
complaint of the appellants was dis-
missed. In the order the trial judge
held as follows:
“It is my opinion that any room,
building or place in which are operat-
ed for profit one or more pool tables,
whether such tables are of standard
size or smaller, is a billiard room
within the meaning of Section 5-501,
1962 Code, and that such places are
subject to all requirements of Chapter
6, Title 5, 1962 Code, except the tax
rate per table provided in Section
5-665, 1962 Code, for billiard tables
measuring not more than three and
one-half feet by seven feet.”
The exceptions of the appellants
raise two questions. (1) Is the opera-
tion of a billiard or pocket billiard
table, such as is described in and li-
censed under Section 5-665 of the
Code, in places in which the principal
business is something other than the
operation of billiard or pocket billiard
(Confined on page 55)
PROFESSIONAL SIZE . . . PROFESSIONAL IVEI6HT
wjueii z '/4 ^
MmffEJK CUE BAU
patent pending
NEW PLAYERS • NEW GAME INTEREST • GREATER PROFITS
AND HERE’S WHY . . .
• The home and professional player will now play coin-operated
pool without the larger size or under-size cue ball affecting their
game.
• Magnetic Cue Ball will not become trapped as it separates itself
from other balls.
• Regulation size and weight assures player more accuracy.
for information write or call
333 MORTON STREET • BAY CITY, MICHIGAN • AREA CODE 517 892-4536
rnMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
54
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
Court of South Carolina's Pool Table Decision
(Continued from page 54)
tables, subject to the provisions of
Sections 5-501 (6) and 5-513, such
being statutes contained in Chapter 6
of the Code; and (2) Does the applica-
tion of the provisions of Chapter 6,
as is contained in Sections 5-501, et
seq. of the Code, to the appellants,
deny them due process and equal pro-
tection of the law as guaranteed to
them by the Fourteenth Amendment
to the United States Constitution and
Art. I, Section 5, of the 1895 Con-
stitution of this State.
Sections 5-501 through 5-521, Chap-
ter 6 of the Code, have to do with the
licensing of and the regulations per-
taining to the operation of billiard
rooms or pocket billiard rooms. Sec-
tion 5-665 of Chapter 7, of the Code,
has to do with the licensing of any
billiard or pocket billiard table, as
such is described in said section. This
section contains no regulations re-
garding the operation of any billiard
or pocket billiard table and in no way
refers to Chapter 6 of the Code and
the regulations therein contained.
However, both Chapter 6 and Chapter
7 of the Code deal with the licensing
of billiard or pocket billiard tables.
Under Section 5-519 of the Code, the
operator of a billiard room is required
to pay an annual license tax of Twen-
ty-five dollars per table and, under
Section 5-665 of the Code, every per-
son operating any billiard or pocket
billiard tables of the description there-
in contained is required to pay an an-
nual tax of ten dollars per table.
The record shows that the appel-
lants obtained a license to operate a
pocket billiard table pursuant to the
provisions of Section 5-665 of the
Code, which provides:
“Every person owning or maintain-
ing any place of business or other
place wherein or in connection with
which is operated or located any bil-
liard or pocket billiard table meas-
uring not more than three and one-
half feet wide and seven feet long,
whether operated by a slot or other-
wise, shall apply for and procure from
the Commission a license for the
privilege of operating such billiard or
pocket billiard table and shall pay for
such license a tax of ten dollars for
each billiard or pocket billiard table
owned or operated except that every
person operating billiard or pocket
billiard tables measuring more than
three and one-half feet wide and sev-
en feet long, whether operated by slot
or otherwise, shall be taxed under the
provisions of Chapter 6 of this Title.”
The statutory regulations applica-
ble to billiard rooms and pocket bil-
liard rooms are set forth in Section
5-501, et seq. of the Code. Section
5-501 (1) defines a “billiard room” and
“pocket billiard room” as “Any room,
hall, building or place kept for the
purpose of operating billiard or pock-
et billiard tables for the purpose of
permitting games to be played there-
on for profit.”
It is stipulated here that “the pool
tables involved are operated in serv-
ice stations, groceries, or general
stores, or other places in which the
principal businesses of the establish-
ments are something other than the
operation of billiard or pool tables.”
The principal business of the appel-
lant Bryant is the operation of a res-
taurant, and the room in which he
operates same is not kept for the
purpose of operating billiard or pock-
et billiard tables within the contem-
plation of the provisions set forth in
Section 5-501, et seq. of the Code. It
follows that the room in which the
restaurant was operated is not a bil-
liard room or pocket billiard room
and Sections 5-501 (6) and 5-513 are
inapplicable to the appellants, not be-
cause the tables are of the dimensions
mentioned in Section 5-665 but be-
cause Bryant’s business is other than
the operation of a billiard room. The
appellants argue that they are not
subject to the regulations contained
in Sections 5-501, et seq.. Chapter 6
of the Code, because Section 5-665
operates as a repeal of these sections
and hence such are not applicable to
billiard or pocket billiard tables de-
scribed in Section 5-665, such would
be a billiard room and subject to the
restrictive provisions contained in
Chapter 6 of the Code.
It is our conclusion that the trial
judge was in error in holding that
Bryant’s place of business, because
of the operation therein of a billiard
or pocket billiard table, as such is de-
scribed in Section 5-665 of the Code,
was a billiard room within the mean-
ing of Sections 5-501, et seq. of the
Code, and that such was subject to
all of the restrictions and regulations
contained in said sections.
In view of the foregoing conclusion
it is unnecessary for us to consider
the constitutional question raised by
the appellants.
The judgment of the lower court
is reversed and this case remanded
thereto so that a proper order not
inconsistent herewith may be entered.
Reversed and remanded.
Lewis, Bussey and Brailsford, JJ.,
and Lionel K. Legge, A.A.J., concur.
(Note — Passages in this text,
deemed by the editors as having the
greater significance, have been set in
bold face type for clarification for
those readers unfamiliar with the
style of legal documents.)
Robert L. Richards
Elected Chief Of NCA;
To Take Office Soon
CHICAGO — Robert L. Richards has
been elected president of the National
Confectioners Association, it was an-
nounced last week by Burr Sifers, the
association’s board chairman.
Action on Richards’ election took
place at the Association’s mid-year
board meeting, December 7-9. He will
assume his new duties soon.
For the past six years, Richards has
been executive administrator of the
Illinois State Medical Society. Pre-
viously, he was executive director,
American Society of Internal Medi-
cine, San Francisco, which has 46
component state societies, and for 12
years before that Richards was asso-
ciated with the Pennsylvania Medical
Society.
Richards is chairman of the Asso-
ciation Committee of the U.S. Cham-
ber of Commerce and has a consider-
able background in all phases of busi-
ness and trade association programs
as well as organizational problems.
Long active in civic and business
activities, Richards is a member of the
executive committee of the Associa-
tion Executives Forum of Chicago.
He is a member of the American So-
ciety of Association Executives, the
American Management Association
and Medical Society Executives Asso-
ciation.
Richards will make his office at the
association’s headquarters, 36 South
Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
55
TO ALL ADVERTISERS
BECAUSE OF A PRINTER’S HOLIDAY
THIS FRIDAY, CASH BOX URGES ALL
ADVERTISERS TO PLAN ON DELIVERING
ALL COPY AND PLATES ON OR BEFORE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28 TO THE
CASH BOX NEW YORK OFFICE. FINAL
DEADLINE IS THURSDAY, DECEMBER
29, AT 11:30 AM.
BUY
TOP EARNIMGS
IN
EVERY TYPE OF LOCATION
EVERYWHERE
with Sound as Big
as ALL OUTDOORS
I )
+■
1
I
1
1
I
Wishing You HAPPY HOLIDAYS ! i
from ART DADDIS & I
UNITED BILLIARDS !
52-58 Hunter St.. Newark, N.J. (201) 923-9797 1
THE GRECO BROS
Contact The Greatest
^ For ALL Of Your 'jAr
Domestic and Export Needs
Any Machine That Operates
With A Coin — We Got.
If We Don't — We'll Get It!
Season’s Greetings
ftUiM STEET, ClASCO, N.Y.
CHerry 6-8700
For all of your Vending, Music and Amusement requkemmiis
contact us for fast, efficient service
BANNER SPECIALTY COMPANY
ISM FIFTH AVt, FIITSIUIIGH. PA. • llJS-11 N. FIFTH ST„ PHILAMLPHIA. PA.
THE ANNUAL MOAN N GROAN — Big city as well as country operators
^e going through the yearend squeeze these days, known by many as the
Holiday Giveaway Bonanza. The crux of the matter is that little holiday tithe
donated to location owners, their wives, kids, cats, dogs etc. which most ops
teel an obligation, for one reason or another, to do. Well, it is good business
t^o show the location owner your appreciation by putting a little honey in his
beard once a year After all, guys, it is only once a year. So with tongue in
check, here are a few last minute gift suggestions for well-intentioned opera-
tors who like the spots they operate in and feel the same way about the guy
who owns the location: an adding machine for the location owner and his bar-
tenders to keep an “accurate” count on the coins they deposited “shilling” the
machine and the coins the phono “grabbed with returning any music”; a
custom-made cutolf switch that’ll plunge the place into total blackness each
time the bartender pulls the plug on the juke to turn on the TV; a year’s sup-
ply of handkerchiefs and a copy of ‘Hearts And Flowers’ for the poor guy who
d^pt think his cut of your collections is high enough; and a set of folding
chairs which the location might break out when the customers start sitting on
your shuffle alley.
DO IT AND DO IT RIGHT — MONY’S able attorney Teddy Blatt advised last
week it s quite possible that many location contracts have been signed but
been filled out fully, especially the terms of the arbitration clause.
This contract took us a long time to put together,” Blatt said, “and it’s as
foolproof as they come. However, we’ve had several instances where an
operator comes in with an arbitration matter between him and one of his
locations only to learn he made inadequate provision when the contract was
originally signed. If you’re going to use a contract, use it right,” the counsellor
advised. . . . This is the season for giving, as we all know, so please don’t
forget the Barney Ross Fund. For details, call Lou Wolberg down at Runyon
Sales. . . . Bronx and Manhattan op Sam Morrison says he’s finished his
Christmas decorating — decorating the machines with Christmas records, that
it. The holiday disks rake in their fair share of coins and it’s just a shame the
season doesn’t come once a month. . . . Rentals on old jukes are always a
source of extra income during this time with lots of folks looking for some-
1 thing different to liven up a party.
I ART’S INTO SOMETHIN’ GOOD — United Billiards prexy Art Daddis is so
proud of his tables he’s offering an unconditional guarantee on all mechanical
parts (with the exception of the coin rejector). “I’ve spent a long time in this
business of table operation,” Daddis said last week, “and I’ve found that
mechanical simplicity founded on structural durability is the secret to con-
tinued, trouble-free operation. Therefore, I am able to guarantee the mechanical
works of these United tables, and, for the life of the machine.” . . . Johnny
Kirkpatrick, president of a firm called Kirk Electronics Mfg. Co. (located in
Orlando, Fla.) has pioneered and is now selling a taue cartridge stereo wallbox
and hideway combination. He calls the unit the ‘Kirk-O-Matic Minute Music
System and advises that results on test locations after two years have estab-
lished “almost phenomenal [income] in comparison to ordinary juke boxes in
similar locations.” The increased collections are due, he says, to the fact that
the Kirk-O-Matic vends one minute of music per selection as opposed to
almost three from standard jukes. “We are making arrangements with national
chain drug stores and restaurants for operator/owned installations on a
national basis. We are convinced that in securing locations in this manner,
operators will have no trouble in installing the equipment as fast as the
arrangements are made by us.” (Johnny, incidentally, is the former owner of
the Florida Music Company, a juke and games route in central Florida.)
HERE AND THERE — Picks o’ the week from the lads at Tarantelli Enter-
I prises (Syracuse one-stop) cite Ray Conniff’s rendition of ‘Mame’ on Columbia
I and ‘Ev’ry Street’s A Boulevard’ by the great Frankie Laine on ABC
I Paramount. Tommy’s “Watch This One” for operators is Debbie Meil’s ‘Forever
; Yours’ on RCA Victor. . . . The lads at Musical Moments operation say two
I tunes are makin’ hay for big city operators: ‘Hey Leroy, Your Mama’s Calling
I You’ by Jimmy Castor on Smash and ‘Oh Yeah’ by the Joe Cuba Sextet on Tico
‘ Records.
' A WORD TO THE WISE — The Cash Box Classified Section has served as an
: active and reliable market place for the exchange of used coin equipment and
phono records for many years. Providing the trade with firm names and lists of
available equipment either for sale or to buy is its job and it does it well.
Therefore, we must urge all of our readers to notify us immediately of any
complaints they might have after doing business with one of our classified
accounts. One such complaint came in last week and it is obviously not in our
interest to be a tool for any charlatan business. . . . Harold Kaufman’s recon-
ditioning Dept, (out at Musical Distributors in Bklyn.) doing first-class work,
. say some customers we ran into last week. They process one of the largest
volumes of used machines in the city. Add these to the Wurlitzer and ChiCoin
lines and it’s easy to understand why it’s so hard to get Harold on the phone.
. . . Old buddy Nate Sugerman building a solid business in mutual funds and
securities sales out of his home in Maplewood, N.J. The former Runyon Sales
comptroller calls his firm Nathan Andrew Associates and numbers many mem-
bers of this trade among his customers. . . . Wometco Enterprises, one of the
nation’s largest vending operations, has diversified some of its funds into the
motion picture business. We can’t wait to see promo director Gerry Whaley on
the silver screen. . . . Rowe’s own silver screener, the Phono-Vue, due to hit
heavy on the distributor network round about February, will be sporting many
of the most colorful new films on the audio-viz scene today. Marketing chief
Fred Poliak’s been directing some of his attention to this end. . . . Active
Amusement’s Joe Ash patiently waiting for Gottlieb’s spanking new ‘King Of
Diamonds’ single-player pin, due in his showrooms by Jan. 10th. Joe’s already
taken a deck of orders for the new pin and looks forward to biggest year yet
with the line. New Year’s wishes go out to Philly ops and the rest of the trade
from the Active prexy, sales execs Marty Brownstein and Frank Ash and parts
specialist Morris Schein. . . . Tommy Greco’s back from a few days’ stay in
Birmingham, Ala., visiting with old friend Johnny Rowell. Tom did it the hard
way — down and back by car. A better man than I! . . . Members of the West-
chester Operators Guild, their employees and wives enjoyed their annual
Christmas party at the Tappan Hill Restaurant in Tarry town, N.Y., on Wed.
Dec. 14th. “Needless to say, a gala evening was enjoyed by all,” says associa-
tion secretary Seymour Poliak P.S. Best wishes for a prosperous ’67 from
all of us here at Cash Box to all of you out there.
56
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
/
©Chicago Chatter
SO another year goes by the boards. It was a good year in all phases of
combiz— -and, it was a fruitful year, spurred on by the greatly accelerated
burgeoning of the young audio-visual machines typified by Scopitone — its hefty
inroads in the coin machine business during ’66; the actual re-birth of the
exciting Color-Sonics machine; Rowe-AMI’s introduction of the “Phono- Vue”
audio-visual adaptor premiered jointly with the “Music Merchant” phonograph
and the dollar bill acceptor; and Dave Rosen’s “Cinejukebox,” and its result-
ant great resurgence this year. Obviously, we haven’t heard the last from
the audio-visual area where other announcements are concerned during the
coming months. . . . Most everyone we queried these last few weeks in 1966
expressed confidence that 1967 shows great promise of being another banner
year in all phases of coinbiz.
Last Tuesday morning, December 20, we dashed out to the Flying Carpet
Motel just near O’Hare Field where Rowe AC Mfg. Corp. executives con-
vened with midwestern distributors to present the exciting’, new model 212
(Rowe) coffee vending machine. The fine presentation was made by Joe Bar-
ton, national sales manager; Robert Martin and Tom Fenton, of the Sales
Training-Development Dept., of which Martin is manager. Also representing
the factory were Rowe AC Prexy Jack Harper, Dick Mueller, Paul Huebsch,
Phil Glover and Gordon Winfield. . . . Among the distributors on hand were:
For Atlas Music Co., Chicago, Eddie Ginsburg, Sam Gersh, Bill Phillips, Bob
Fabian, Chuck Harper and Stan Levin. . . . From Milwaukee and Pioneer Sales
& Services came: Joel Kleiman, Dan Karolzik, and Jerry Groll. . . . Harry
Silverberg, of W. B. Music in Kansas City, came in with general manager
Jerry Becker (better lose that excess weight, Jerry!), and Jim Jackson. . . .
Pete Entringer’s Advance Distributing group from St. Louis, Mo. included:
Hank Sheafer, Elmer Jansen, and Roger Price. . . . Kenny Glenn, of K. C.
Sales & Services in St. Paul, Minnesota, came in solo for the session. . . . Also
on hand was A. E. (Art) Frey, of Everpure, Inc., who provides water treat-
ment equipment to Rowe AC Mfg. Corp. for their coffee machines. . . . As
usual, the irrepressible photog, Joe P. Gino, was on hand to record the day’s
activities in pictures. . . . Daniel P. (Handsome Dan) Collins, ex-Seeburg vice
prexy, and presently manager of distributor relations for RCA-Victor’s Record
Division, extends best season’s greetings to his great host of friends from his
new diggin’s in Manhattan in an appropriately tinseled and illustrated Christ-
mas card. . . . Williams Electronic Mfg. Corp. is the scene, Friday, December
23, for the annual gala Christmas party, traditional every year, which is easily
the one big gathering in coinbiz in Windy City. Most of us always look forward
to greeting and meeting old friends during this heavily attended bash. Among
the Williams hosts on the so-called receiving line (the long bar!) are: Prexy and
general manager Sam Stern, Herb Oettinger, Buddy Lurie, Jack Mittel, Billy
DeSelm, Hank Dabek, my favorite telephone gal LaVerne, and so many, many
more. . . . We also expect to encounter such Seeburg executives as Louis J.
Nicastro, William (Bill) Adair, Frank (Santa!) Luppino, Edward Claffey,
Stanley Jarocki, Bill Prutting, Joe Hards, among others. . . . We extend sea-
son’s greetings to Dvnaball (Company’s Sam and Frances Berger and Dusty
Hohbein. . . . Ditto to Paul and Rosemary Huebsch and all the little Huebsches.
. . . Art and Kay Weinand and family. . . . Sorry we had to miss the exciting
Christmas party at Fischer Mfg. Co., where hosts were Ewald and Margaret
Fischer. Frank and Mary Ann Schroeder, and Mr. & Mrs. Marve Mertes, and
the staff of employees. . . . Lest we forget: DuKane Corp.’s Joe Lyons and
Jim Davis. . . . Heartiest best wishes for the New Year to Harry and Rose
Silverberg, and Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Becker, of W. B. Music in Kansas City, Mo.
. . . The hearty returnee from Viet Nam, where he headed a USO touring
company, Sig Sakowicz and his family. . . . We received a lovely Christmas
card from the gang at Kay Musical Instrument Co., and extend sincerest
Christmas and New Year greetings to Bob Keyworth, Joe Scherl, Sy Teitel-
baum. Bob Lynch and Lou Acerra. . . . Another year of enjoying the wonder-
ful presence of the Wonderful Leverones — Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel Leverone,
founder-chairmen of Canteen Corporation (long may they prosper!). ... To
all our friends at MOA — ICMOA — NAMA — COIN — and all the other
statewide associations too numerous to mention here. . . . An especial greet-
ing to Jim Tolisano, the new president of MOA, our best wishes for a very
fruitful tenure in 1967, and the hopes that he can continue to accelerate the
kind of positive action in the association that was greatly spearheaded by
dynamic John A. (Red) Wallace in 1966. As for Fred Granger — MOA’s re-
sourceful executive vice president and managing director — we feel certain
that everyone in coinbiz is thrilled that he’s on hand with his ‘Gal Friday,’
Bonnie York, and their presence is indeed felt all the year long. . . . We’d
like to name all our wonderful friends in the coin machine and vending indus-
tries in this limited space, but it just isn’t possible. WE TAKE THIS OPPOR-
TUNITY TO WISH ONE AND ALL A VERY HAPPY, HEALTHFUL AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!
★ ★ ★
Milwaukee Mentions
A worthwhile resolution for the New Year from the Wisconsin operators
should certainly be to concentrate heavily (we should say more heavily!) on
a resurgence of association activity in the statewide Wisconsin Music Mer-
chants Association, and in the Milwaukee Coin Machine Operators Association.
A handful of dedicated operators is, as always, striving mightily towards this
thus far elusive goal. They certainly need the support of EVERYONE to suc-
ceed in this vital endeavor. We URGE ALL Wisconsin and Milwaukee coinmen
(and that includes the distributor personnel) to climb aboard the bandwagon
. . . Pioneer Sales & Services’ Joel Kleiman, Dan Karolzik and Jerry Groll were
in the Flying Carpet Motel, near O’Hare Field, for the Rowe AC Mfg. presen-
tation to regional distributors of the exciting, new Rowe model 212 coffee
machine. The presentation was very ably made by Rowe AC’s national sales
manager Joe Barton, Bob Martin and Tom Fenton. Also on hand for the fac-
tory were Prexy Jack Harper, Dick Mueller, Paul Huebsch, Phil Glover and
Gordon Winfield . . . Another distrib head in attendance at the Rowe session
was Kenny Glenn, of K. C. Sales & Services, in St. Paul, Minnesota . . . We’re
happy to say that Bob and Bev Rondeau, and all the little Rondeaus, are NOT
snowed in for a change. However, we get the impression from the Little
Rondeaus that some snow is (shall we say) desirable for Christmas Day . . .
When we headed out to Cream City last weekend we noted that the only thing
on most of the coinfolk minds was the holidays, and all the plans to make
it a happy holiday season . . . Nate Victor and his staff were busy setting plans
for a bit of Christmas festivity over at S. L. London Music Co. . . . When we
swung over to United, Inc. there was no question that all the halls were decked
with holly . . . HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Ccish Box
JUKE BOX OPS
RECORD GUIDE
PICKS for PROGRAMMING
The following records, selected from the CASH BOX Top 100, represent tunes ond performances which
appear to be especiolly suitable to the juke box on location. Ops should check with their one-stops
for availobility.
GALLANT MEN
Senator Dirksen (Capitol 50$5}
98 6
Keith (Mercury 72639;
SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON
Royal Guardsmen (Laurie 3366)
LET THE GOOD TIMES IN
Dean Martin (Reprise 538)
GOODNIGHT MY LOVE
Happenings (B. T. Puppy 523)
THAT'S LIFE
Frank Sinatra (Reprise 531)
BLUE AUTUMN
Bobby Goldsboro (UA 50087)
MAME
Herb Alpert (A & M 823)
TIME AFTER TIME
Chris Montez (A & M 822)
COMING HOME SOLDIER
Bobby Vinton (Epic 10090)
SUGAR TOWN
Nancy Sinatra (Reprise 527)
COLOR MY WORLD
Petula Clark (Warner Bros. 5882)
WISH YOU WERE HERE, BUDDY
Pat Boone (Dot 16833)
THE WHEEL OF HURT
Al Martino (Capitol 15741)
BANG BANG
Joe Cuba (Tico 475)
WACK WACK
Young Holt Trio (Brunswick 55305)
WORDS OF LOVE
Mamas & Papas (Dunhill 4057)
EGGPLANT THAT ATE CHICAGO
Dr. West's Junk Band (Go-Go 100)
I'M A BELIEVER
Monkees (Colgems 1002)
MAMA
Cher (Imperial 66223)
SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
Boots Randolph (Monument 976)
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE
Pozo Seco Singers (Columbia 43927)
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PICKS
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CAROL
Mike Douglas (Epic 5-10089)
YOU'RE ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
Al Martino (Capitol 5311)
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE
Barbra Streisand (Columbia 443896)
llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli
SANTA LOOKED A LOT LIKE DADDY
Buck Owens (Capitol 5537)
THE FIRST WORD
Eddy Arnold (RCA 479027)
TO HECK WITH OLE SANTA CLAUS
Loretta Lynn (Decca 32043)
lllllllillllllillllllllllllllllllll^
// you are reading
someone elses €opy of
Cash Box
X;.
why not mail this coupon
today
CASH BOX
1780 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10019
Enclosed find my check.
G $20 for a full year (52 weeks) subscription (United
States, Canada, Mexico)
Q $40 for a full year (Airmail United States, Canada,
Mexico)
G $30 for a full year (other countries)
G $45 for 0 full yeor (Airmail other countries)
NAME
FIRM
ADDRESS
Please Check Proper
Classification Below
MY FIRM OPERATES THE
FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT:
JUKE BOXES □
AMUSEMENT GAMES □
CIGARETTES □
VENDING MACHINES G
OTHER
CITY STATE ZIP
Ba Sura To Chack Businass Clasfiticotions Above!
Cash Box — December 31j 1966
57
California Clippings
Cash Box
H DING NEWS
This Vertriing Machine Industry's Only Newsweekly
Breither— 35 Years of Service
Bob Breither, right,
vire president, vending
sales, is congratulated
by Seeburg Sales Corpo-
ration president William
F. Adair and presented
with gold cuff links sig-
nifying 35 years of serv-
ice with the Chicago
firm. Breither, always
one to set the record
straight, pointed out
that service with firms
subsequently acquired by
Seeburg brought about
the 35 year total.
Would You Believe?
Rudd-Melikian: Sales Up 531%
WARMINSTER, PA. — Rudd-Meli-
kian, Inc. reported here this week a
sharp increase in fiscal 1966 net in-
come and sales.
A major importer and roaster of
coffees and prime manufacturer of
automatic coffee brewing equipment,
the firm had net sales of $7,019,251
for the fiscal year ending May 27,
1966. This is an increase of $1,546,813
or 28% over the previous year’s total
of $5,472,438.
Net income was $146,635 for a
531% increase over the 1965 fiscal
year total of $27,594. Outstandi'^g
shares for both years were 689,964.
Earnings per share for this past year
were 21^ up from 4c for the prior
year.
Net income reported is after a pro-
vision for deferred Federal income
taxes of $155,000.
In a letter to shareowners, manage-
ment reports that “this improvement
reflects the results of our emphasis,
particularly during the past three
years, on the nroduct lines — coffee and
coffee brewing equipment — which
have traditionally earned for the com-
pany the best return on its invest-
ment and effort.”
“Being in both the coffee roasting
business and coffee brewing eauin-
ment manufacturing business affords
us the unique opportunity of pursuing
the development of new products with
the combined approach of highly-
skilled food technologists and profes-
sional electro-mechanical engineers.”
“In coffee products, in addition to
our unique portion package of ground
coffee in filter-tape, we are now pre-
paring our “Old Mill” brand in bulk
packages to facilitate expansion of
this business further into the vending
and institutional fields.”
“In coffee equipment we are now
manufacturing four different size
units to fill the major needs of the
on-the-job coffee-break market, from
the small office to the large industrial
plant.”
In keeping with our market and
profit objectives, it’s significant to
note that a recently published author-
itative study in demonstrating the
popularity of coffee today in the
United States, points out that our
nation drinks three times more coffee
than soft drinks.”
“In addition to our primary and
proprietary products — coffee and cof-
fee brewing equipment — we are con-
stantly evaluating the ever changing
market so that we may maintain our
cc.ripst-rlvs posture.”
“We believe that the men and
v v. .er. who work for this company
i s t s of our greatest assets. During
year, and subsequent to its
. ' k " k'O' ; our Management has been
strengthened with the elec-
tion of two new officers. Frank X
McCoy and John A. O’Hea, who both
have had exemplary careers in mar-
keting and sales management, were
elected vice presidents.”
“With the company entering its
third decade of service. Management
gratefully acknowledges the vital role
played during the past 20 years by all
of our employees, customers, sup-
pliers, directors and shareholders.
While the years ahead will require
careful and constant appraisal of our
cooperative objectives, we are confi-
dent that our recent achievements will
provide a basis for a productive
future.”
186 New Vending Firms
Joined NAMA In 1966
CHICAGO — A total of 186 companies
joined the National Automatic Mer-
chandising Association during a na-
tionwide 30th anniversary year cam-
paign which began in August, accord-
ing to W. J. Manning, Jr., president.
'The drive, which continues until the
end of the year, has already brought
the total membership of NAMA to
1,675 firms, compared with 1,550 at
the beginning of 1966. The totals do
not include some 530 local branch
operations of national and regional
firms.
During the current appeal for new
members, 167 operating companies, 16
suppliers and 3 machine manufacturer
firms became members of the associa-
tion, Manning said.
As of December 1, the association
had 1,424 operating company mem-
bers, 201 supplier members and 50
machine manufacturer members.
“We are indebted to the team of
volunteers working under membership
chairman J. Richard Howard for this
substantial increase,” Manning said.
“Many operator members, and espe-
cially the sales representatives of our
manufacturers and suppliers, have
made the contacts with new members
which made this good showing pos-
sible.”
“I now appeal to all vending opera-
tors who have thought about joining
NAMA, but haven’t been contacted,
to let us know they’re interested. The
entire industry benefits from a
stronger national association, but so
does every operator of vending equip-
ment,” Manning stressed.
He said the 1966 appeal brought
several of the larger nonmember op-
erating firms into NAMA.
California registered the largest in-
crease in members (21), followed by
! Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York,
^ Ohio, and Wisconsin.
TWO DOWN, AND ONE MORE 'TO GO. . . . With Thanksgiving and
Christmas behind us, everyone is getting ready to batten down the hatches,
in preparation for the final siege — New Years! We are not knocking these
great institutions, it’s just that we have already gained 6 pounds, and we
need a breather! All in all, as we reflect on what has happened in the past
year, things have not gone too badly. If during the year things have been a
little slow, the month of December has more than made up for the other
eleven. We are looking forward, as we hope everyone else is, to the coming
new year being bigger and better than ever. We are in the spirit of 67!
NATE HOCKMAN JOINS FORCES WITH WURLITZER. . . . Nat,
formerly with Struve Distributing, and of late. Advance Automatic, has joined
the Wurlitzer family as their New England representative. We are very sorry
to see him leave, but we wish him well in his new position. Glad to hear that
Clayton Ballard’s daughter and son-in-law, Lt. & Mrs. William Hofmann,
managed to get here for the holidays, despite some car trouble. Bob Collyer
touring the San Diego area, while Johnny Morrison is covering the San
Bernardino territory.
OPEN HOUSE FOR ONE AND ALL. . . . The “holiday spirit” is very
much in evidence at C. A. Robinson Co. The open house will last thru the rest
of the week, with invites going out to all operators and — competitors, for
that matter. A1 Bettleman is proving to be an affable bartender and dispenser
of good cheer. Hank Tronick says that the open house is serving another
purpose, besides the obvious one of getting people into the store. By the
time you read this he hopes to have a brand new model of pool table on the
showroom floor. Hank wouldn’t disclose the brand name, he said that we, like
everyone else on Pico Blvd., would have to come in and see for ourselves. We
hear that Alan Anderson, veteran operator from Shafter, was in visiting long
time buddy, Charlie Robinson. Hank told us that since we last spoke, his
son Mike won another award. Mike who attends Van Nuys High School, was
selected as senior of the year and presented with an award by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars award.
FROM THE RECORD RACKS. . . . The Solle sisters at Luenhagen tell us that
they received a call from C&W recording artist. Hank Penny, and he says that
as soon as he finishes recording, he will bring the record in for the girls
to hear. The “monster” of the week over there seems to be “Tell It Like It
Is” by Aaron Neville on Parlow. . . . From California Music, Buddy Robinson
tells us that “Snoopy V.S. the Red Baron” is still taking pot shots at the
Morkees, who are still riding high on the charts with “I’m A Believer” and
“I’m Not Your Stepping Stone.” Many record stores have told us that people
who have not been in a record store in years, are coming in specifically to
buy both Snoopy and the Monkees. In the album department the Monkees are
still to pbut “Got Live If You Want It” by the Rolling Stones on London, is
moving up fast.
HERE AND THERE. . . . Out of Circle International we get the info that
Dean McMurdie spent a few days in San Diego, while at the same time
Don Edwards was touring Las Vegas. At present Ken Smith is in Long Beach
calling on ops. Also hear that they are eagerly awaiting another shipment of
the Rowe AMI “Music Merchant.” . . . Sorry to hear that Bob Portale of
Advance Automatic was a bit under the weather for a few days. While he was
out, Frank Mencuri did a fine job of holding down the fort. . . . Marvin Miller
was very pleased to report that Coin Machine Service just received their first
shipment of the Federal line machines and that the response has been very
good. For the man that has everything — ivory que balls. Marvin says that
he sold some of these to a friend of Joey Bishop’s for a birthday present for
Joey. We are also told that they received a huge shipment of the new All-Tech
pool tables.
Upper Mid-West Musings
Cap Keister, in town for the day making the rounds and buying records and
parts. . . . Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Sanford, in town for the day picking up parts
and records. . . . Lawrence Sieg, Eau Claire, in the cities on a buying trip. . . .
George Wohler, Stillwater, in town for the day and let it be known that
he was elected as a council man . . . Jim Stansfield Jr. in town for the day. . . .
Arnold Brevik, Watertown, in the cities for the day making the rounds and
buying parts and records. . . . Don Hazelwood in the cities for the day. Don’s
son, who is in the Air Force, and has flown'his quota of missions in Viet Nam,
is on his way home and will be home in time for Christmas. . . . Our deepest
sympathy to Roy Foster on the suddent death of his wife. . . . Ernest Woytos-
sek and his son in town for the day on a buying trip. . . . Mr. & Mrs. Gordon
Runnberg in the cities for the day as was Eddie Kubes of New Prague. . . .
Mr & Mrs. Jack Backus in town for a few days vacation. . . . Phil Moss, Des
Moines, in town for a few hours. Flew up in his own plane in an hour. . . .
Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Norberg and their two children leave for Hawaii Wednes-
day 22nd. for a three week vacation. They will have a wonderful reunion with
their two daughters that are going to school there. . . . Clem Kaul in the
cities for the day picking up parts and records. . . . Mr. & Mrs. Ed Petek, in
town for a few days vacation. . . . Ritchie Hawkins in town for the day buying
records and parts.
★ ★ ★
Happy Birthday This Week To:
Forest J. Hiser, Fort Wayne, Indiana. . . . Frank P. Feigl, Chicago, Illinois.
. . . Robert Breither, Chicago, Illinois. . . . Arthur E. Davis, Knoxville, Tenn.
. . . T. R. Noto, Navasota, 'Texas. . . . Joe Robbins, Chicago, Illinois. . . .
Maxine Robinson Meale, Cincinnati, Ohio. . . . Elmer F. Benjamin, Santa
Monica, Calif. . . . Howard A. Herman, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. . . . John W. Oomens,
Glenview, Illinois. . . . James M. Browning, Dallas, Texas. . . . Robert Portall,
San Francisco, California. . . . Bert B. Davidson, No. Tonawanda, N.Y. . . .
Sol Schwartz, Los Angeles, California. . . . Wm. A. Thompson, Long Beach,
Calif. . . . Herman C. Creswell, Jr., Milan, Tenn. . . .Myrtle H. Singley, Shreve-
port, Louisiana.
Cash Box— -December 31, 1966
UMC: Forty Yea rs
In The Vending Line
ST. LOUIS — UMC -Industries, Inc.
(formerly Universal Match Corpora-
tion) has been closely associated with
the automatic merchandising- industry
since the mid-1920s.
At that time, UMC — a small com-
pany producing only match books —
saw the important part matches could
play in the sale of cigarettes from
machines, which at the time was it-
self a small field. In close association
■with operators of the machines, UMC
worked to make match books an ef-
fective part of machine merchandis-
ing of cigarettes. Through the years,
the company has pioneered in many
improvements in match book design
and packaging, for more efficient and
effective use in vending.
In the mid-1950s, when UMC was
ready to undertake a major expan-
sion program, vending was regarded
as a natural area to explore. The
firm began looking for manufacturers
with strong records of leadership.
In 1956, UMC bought its St. Louis
neighbor. National Vendors, the
world’s largest manufacturer of ciga-
rette and candy machines, and an im-
portant producer of other vending
machines — which then set and con-
tinue to set industry standards for
quality and performance.
The same year, UMC acquired a
substantial interest in another St.
Louis firm. National Rejectors, Inc.
This company is the world’s largest
producer of money validating and
handling equipment for the vending
industry. NRI became a wholly owned
subsidiary in 1959.
In 1960, UMC bought Glasco Cor-
poration, the pioneers in the pre-mix
soft-drink machine field. Glasco, now
a division of UMC Industries, has its
plant and headquarters at Barnhart,
Mo.
In July, 1961, UMC acquired ex-
clusive North American distribution
and assembly rights for the versatile
vending machine line of Wittenborg,
Denmark. The Danish firm is a lead-
ing producer of hot and cold food and
general merchandise vendors in Eu-
rope.
The acquisition of Lennox Manu-
facturing Company, of Chicago in
the spring of 1964, gave UMC added
strength in the beverage vendor field.
Lennox, which now is a UMC divi-
sion, is an outstanding producer of
beverage vending equipment. Its prod-
ucts include National Vendors’ cold
drink and hot beverage merchan-
disers.
As UMC Industries has expanded
in the field of automatic merchandis-
ing, it has held to these goals: to
unite proven leaders, thus giving
them greater strengths to serve the
vending industry, and to advance the
development of automatic merchan-
dising.
ARA Announces
Record Earnings
For 1966: Up 21%
PHILADELPHIA — Automatic Retail-
ers of America, Inc., announced new
record highs in sales and earnings for
its 1966 fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
Davre J. Davidson, chairman, re-
ported preliminary figures showed
revenues rose to $303,540,000 vs.
$260,104,000 for 1965. Pre-tax income
rose to $13,251,000 — a 21 per cent
gain over last year. Net income in-
creased to $7,748,000 from $6,536,000
— an increase of 19 per cent. Earnings
per share in the recent period were
$2.30 — an increase of 15 per cent. This
earnings per share figure is after the
retirement of convertible securities
into common stock during the second
half of the year.
Davidson noted that pre-tax profits
rose more rapidly than revenues, re-
fiecting company efficiency programs
for profit improvement
In May and June all convertible
debt and preferred securities were
called, increasing book value per com-
mon shares, raising equity as per cent
of total capitalization, and increasing
financial strength. Earnings per share
before conversion would have been
$2.35.
^^The Flying Wedge Four^^
Season’s Greetings to Our Many Friends
CHICAGO COIN’S
Thank You for the
Wonderful Reception!
Operators Everywhere State:
This is a real Money-Maker .
with great Player Appeal!”
STILL GOING STRONG!
A Realistic Telescopic Sight!
Two Separate Target Areas!
Mfrs. \
of
PROVEN
PROFIT MAKERS
, Since .
k 1931 ,4
STILL DELIVERING
YOU CAN’T MISS
CHICAGO COIN MACHINE DIV.
CHICAGO DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES
1725 W. DIVERSEY BLVD., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60614
Johnson, Ross, Gregg and Peteet Whiz Into Houston
Taking a break between seminars at
Gulf Coast, Wurlitzer service manager
C. B. Ross, left, strikes a proud pose
with L. C. Butler, head of Gulf Coast.
Classes were held in the new Ramada
Inn in Houston — first time ever for
a factory school in the area.
HOUSTON— L. C. Butler, president
of Gulf Coast Distributing Company,
was host in November to a -visiting
team of Wurlitzer field service engi-
neers— the “Flying Wedge Four’’ of
Walt Peteet, Karel Johnson, Harry
Gregg and C. B. Ross — conducting
the first factory service school ever
held in the area. Subject was the
Wurlitzer “Americana” coin-operated
phonograph.
Butler treated many of the attend-
ees to seats in the Houston Astro-
dome for a look at the Clay-Williams
boxing match, then back it was to the
new Ramada Inn for the classes.
Butler said the attendance “was out-
standing— everybody got what they
came for.” Then the Flying Wedge
Four moved on.
The Flying Wedge
Four, left to right: Ross,
Karel Johnson, Harry
Gregg and Walt Peteet,
sans parachute. Minutes
later they packed their
bags and disappeared
into the sunset.
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
59
MANUFACTURERS NEW EQUIPMENT
CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION
ALL-TECH INDUSTRIES
Ace New Yorker (4?"x85'')
Gold Crest 6 (46"'x78^
Gold Crest 7 (52''x92’')
Gold Crest 8 (57"x101")
Gold Crest 9 (64"xn4")
Champion Slot _Car_
Sett! Cor Kiddie Ride
Chuck Wogon
Sante Fe Express
Fire Engine
Stage Cooch
Indian Scout
Satellite Explorer
Helicopter
AMERICAN MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO.
American Speedwoy
Little Indy
AMERICAN SHUFFLEBOARD CORP.
Electro "6" 6' (6-pkt. table)
Electro "7" (7' 6-pkt. table)
Electro "8" (8' 6-pkt. table)
Classic "6" (6' 6-pkt. table)
Classic "7" (7' 6-pkt. toble)
Classic "8" (8' 6-pkt. table)
Imperial Shutfleboard (16' to 22')
Imperial Cushion Model (12')
Bank Shot Model (9')
Shuttle '88'
AUTOMATICS PRODUCTS COMPANY
Smokeshop "Satellite" 630; 18 Sel. Cap. 630
Smokeshop "Satellite" 850; 27 Sel. Cap. 850
Smokeshop Modular "900"; 18 Sel. Cap. 900
Candyshop "100" Ten Columns 400 Capacity —
Candy; Six Columns. 200 Capacity— Gum &
Mint. First in-First out Feature. Multiple
Pricing. Changemaker Optional.
AUTO PHOTO CO.
Model 12 Studio
BALLY MFG. CO.
Loop The Loop 2P (9/66)
Campus Queen 4P (8/66)
Six Sticks 6P (3/66)
Folies Bergeres Bingo (11/65)
1966 Bally Bowler A/66)
Deluxe Fun Cruise IP (11/66)
Bazaar IP (11/66)
CHICAGO COIN MACHINE
Kicker IP (8/66)
Hula-Hula 2P (5/66)
Imperial Puck Bowler 6P (9/66)
TV Baseboll 2P (3/66)
Flair Bowler (9/66)
Super Scope Gun (10/66)
COIN AMUSEMENT
V-Back Shutfleboard
COLOR-SONICS, INC.
Colorama 2600
Combo 152 (To be released)
DANCARR MUSIC
Wollbox conversion unit
DuKANE CORP.
Ski 'n Shore
Grand Prix Racewoy
Tag-lt
FISCHER MFG. CO., INC.
COIN
Empress 10! (101")
Empress 92 (92")
Regent 91 (91")
Regen; H (77")
Fiesta
77C (77" x 45" x 31Vi")
Regent 35C (3' x 6')
. Rsgent S :C'(92" x 52" x 31Vi")
J. F. FRANTZ MFG. CO.
Little Leaguer (12/62)
Double Header (12/62)
Save Our Business
U.S. Marshall 5^ Gun
Kicker & Catcher
ABT Challenge Pistol
ABT Guesser Scale
ABT Rifle Sport
Aristo Scale
D. GOTTLIEB CO.
Dancing Lady 4P (11/66)
PAUL W. HAWKINS MFG.
Rodeo Pony
Mustang
Pony Cort
Ben Hur Chariot
Twin Quarterhorse
Derby Pony Jr.
Leo The Lion
Sam The Clown
Donny Duck
INTERNATIONAL MUTOSCOPE
Photomatic 60's
Plasti-Motie
Balloon-O-Mat
Snack Bar
Pony Cart
IRVING KAYE CO., INC.
NON-COIN MODELS
Deluxe Continental (4Vi'x9')
Ambassador 70 (85"x47")
Ambassador 75 (92"x52")
Ambassador 80 (I06"x58")
Ambossador 90 (I14"x64")
COIN-OP MODELS
Deluxe Eldorado "66" 5 Pkt. Series
Mark I, 77x45
Mark II, 86x48
Mark III, 92x52
Mark IV, 106x58
Mark V, 114x64
Deluxe Satellite, 77x45
Deluxe Klub Pool
Regular 56x40
Jumbo 75x48
Ring-0 Round Pool Table (56" diameter)
MARVEL MFG. CO.
Side-Rail Elect. Scoreboard
Coin Box
Cross-mount Scoreboard
MIDWAY MFG. CO.
Captain Kid Rifle (9/66)
Premier Puck Shuffle (4/66)
Little League Baseball
Mystery Score (8/65) (Novelty Game)
MONDIAL INTERNATIONAL
Mondial Shoeshine
NATIONAL SHUFFLEBOARD &
BILLIARD CO.
COIN-OP MODELS
Coronet I 46x78
Coronet II 52x92
Coronet III 5^105
Coronet IV 63x113
PATTERSON INT'L CORP.
Foosball Match
Flip Match
Drag Strip
Model 500 160-Sel. Stereo Speaker Wallbox 3
level personal pushbutton volume control
Model 501 100-Sel. Wallbox
500F 160-Sel. Wallbox (50d chute)
501 F 160-Sel. Wallbox (50d chute)
502 Universal Wall Box Bar Bracket
1989 Money Counter for Model 418-SA, 424,
425, 426
DAVID ROSEN, INC.
Cinejukebox (audioviz)
Phono-Voice Recorder
ROCK-OLA MFG. CO.
Caravel le (20 Col. 800 Packs) Model 3002
Cigarette Machine
Model 433 GP/Imperial phonograph. 160 selec-
tions, 45-33rpm stereo-monaurol intermix.
Console size.
Model 432 GP/160 phonograph. 160 selections,
45-33rpm stereo-monaural intermix. Compact
size.
Model 431 Coronado phonograph. 100 selections,
45-33rpm stereo-monaurol intermix. Compact
size.
Model 430 100-Scl. Wall Phono (33-1/3 Op-
tional).
1628 Deluxe "Stereo Twins" Speakers
1631 "Stereo Twins Jr" Speakers_
1984 Remote Volume Control Unit
ROWE MANUFACTURING
PHONOGRAPH
Rowe AMI "Music Merchant" — Model MM-1
without dollar bill acceptor. Model MM-2 with
dollar bill acceptor. "Stereo-Round" Musicon-
sole — 3-in-l programming — 200-160-100 se-
lections— personalized panel. Album and
single record pricing accepts dollar bills, half
dollars, quarters, dimes and nickels. Plays
33-1/3 and 45 r.p.m. records intermixed,
stereo or monaural. Phonovue 120-sel. audio-
viz component.
MUSIC EQUIPMENT
Wollbox— "Wall-Ette" #WRA and #WRB—
remote 200 selection "Stereo Round" speoker
wallbox. Height 13%". Width 1614". Depth
6V4". Push-button volume control. Exclusive
waitress call light button. Twelve album dis-
play merchandisers. Persnalization panel. Half
dollor chute. Twin 30° angle stereo speakers.
Unitized selector and speaker assembly. Flip-
out title pa^e unit. Swing-out, litt-ott door.
Can be serviced from reor or front. Plug-in
components.
HJG— Hideaway — selective stereo — 200 sel.
HGG — Hidewoy — selective stereo — 160 sel.
HHG — Hideway — selective stereo — 100 sel.
R — 2092-A — Discotheque Speakers — Console
Cabinets.
EX-401— Wall Speakers.
BACKGROUND MUSIC SYSTEMS
Customusic Prooramaster — background tape
music system— 60 hours of continuous music.
Exclusive teatue avoids repeating selections In
same sequence. Three exclusive libraries —
commercial, atmosphere, and production.
Available in tape or 9" records.
CMR-1 Message Repeater — self-contoined rec-
ord playback device tor automatically making
in-store announcements.
270— Celebrity First In — First Out; 440 condy,
200 gum and mint capacity. Also pastry col-
umns; changemaker.
277 — Celebrity — 11 columns, 340 items capacity.
77 — Candy Merchandiser — 11 columns. 340
items — chanqpmoker. Small cobinet model.
CIGARETTE VENDORS
160 — Rowe Riviera Cigorette Console — 20 col-
umns, 800-pack capacity. Electric coin mech-
anism with mechonicol totalizer — personali-
zation panel. Sove-a-match feature.
260— Celebrity Cigarette — 20_ columns — 800
packs. Same teatues as Riviera in Celebrity
cabinet.
286— Celebrity Cigarette — 14 columns, 510
packs. Manual coin mechanism with mechan-
ical totalizer.
86 — Cigarette Vendor — 14 columns, 510 packs.
Manual coin mechanism with mechanical to-
talizer. Small cabinet model.
DOLLAR BILL CHANGERS
6 — Dollar Bill Changer. World's first dollor bill
changer. $150 and $300 capacity. Heavy duty
floor model.
THE SEEBURG CORP.
PHONOGRAPHS
Seeburq Stereo Showcase
160-selections, 33-1/3 ond 45 rpm, stereo-mono
play, rotating album display, optional dollar
bill occepter and Income Totalizer System,
balanced tone arm transistorized.
HLPC-1 — Stereo LP Hideawav. 160 selections
(Up to 480 selections with all album program
minal. Income Totalizer. Plavs 33-1/3 ond
45 RPM records intermixed. Album and uni-
versal pricing.
SC-1 — Stereo Consolctte. 160 selections. Used
for remote selection of any record on LP
Console or Hideaway. Personalized panel.
Album display panel. Album pricing. Push-
button volume control. Twin stereo speakers.
Remote Income Totalizer. Polished chrome or
cooper finish.
EBCS-1 — Extended Bass Consolette Speaker.
Provides full range stereo response in con-
iunction with Consolette speakers.
SC-11 — Stereo Communication Consolette. Con-
solette serves as Intercom.
CIM-1— Consolette Intercom Master Unit. Used
with Stereo Communicotion Consolette.
BACKGROUND MUSIC
ICK-1 — Intercommunicotion Consolette Kit. Con-
verts Stereo Consolette to Stereo Communica-
tion Consolette.
BMS-2 — Background Music System 1000 Selee^
tions.
BMC-1 — Bockground Music Compact, 1,000 Se-
lections.
BMCA-1 — Background Music Componion Audio.
Used with Background Music Compact (BMC-
1)
MPE-1 — Electronic Memory Programmer. Used
with the Background Music Compact (BMC-
1) to insert special announcements and com-
mercials Into the background music program.
SABMC-1 — Seeburg Automatic Background Mu-
sic Center. For use with FM Multiplex Tele-
phone Lines and On-Premise Locations. Total
of 11214 hours of music.
SEP-1 — Seeburg Encore Phonograph. 760 Selec-
tions of Foreground Music.
CANDY VENDORS
WIOCNI-Mechontcal. 10 Selections. 220 bar
capacity.
W8TIG — Mechanical 8 Selections. 152 bar
capacity.
CIGARETTE VENDORS
4E6 — Electric. 22 Selections. 825 pack capacity.
W20T1 — Mechanical. 20 Selections. 672 pack
capacity.
W14T1 — Mechanical. 14 Selections. 510 pack
capacity.
MCC-20 — Mechanical. 20 Selections. 720 pack
copacity.
TEL-ASIGN
Scopitone audio-visual machine.
26-inch screen, 36 film selections, continuous
reel-to-reel 16mm projection system, 15 watts
sound power.
UNITED BILLIARDS
COIN-OPERATED TABLES
"100" (78x46)
"200" (88x51)
"300" (93 X 53)
"400" (103 X 58)
"500" (114 X 64)
URBAN INDUSTRIES
Movie Theaters
Model AP-IO
Panoram
U.S. BILLIARDS, INC.
Electro-Pool, Electric Pocket Billiard Game.
6 Pkt. Series:
Pro 1—78x46
Pro 2—88x51
Pro 3—93x53
Pro 4— 103x58
Pro 5 — 114x64
Club Pool
56x40
75x43
Coin-A-Copy (Photocopy unit)
VALLEY SALES CO.
Bumper Pool®
Model 522S/W Reg. Size
Model 785A— 78x45
Model 875A— 88x50
Model 935A— 93x53
Model 1035—100x57
El Magnitico Series
Model 884—88x50
Model 934—93x53
Model 1014— lOlx'7
WILLIAMS MFG. CO.
Casanova 2P (12/66)
Encore Puck Bowler (9/66)
Aztec Bowler (9/66)
THE WURLITZER COMPANY
PHONOGRAPHS
Americana Model 3100
200-selections, stereo-mono, solid-state ampli-
fier, 25 watts per channel panoramic pictorial
dome panel display or optnonal dollar bill ac-
ceptor, Golden Bar feature.
REMOTE CONTROL EQUIPMENT
5220 Wall Box 200 Select!on-10^-25<-504
with L.L.P.
5220A Wail Box 200 Selection-IOd-254-504
with L.L.P.
5225 Wall Box 100 Selection-10^254-504 with
Speakers, Top Tunes Golden Bar and L.L.P.
5225A Wall Box 100 Selection-lO^-ZS^-SOr*
with L.L.P.
5010 Wall Box Ten Top Tune$-504 coin only
2S9B Stepper 100 Selection for Model 3010
261 B Stepper 200 Selection tor Model 3000
5121 Speaker — Private — Wurlitzer Wall Box
Mounting
5121A Speaker — Private — Woll Mounting
5123 Speaker — Woll 12" Coaxial
5125B Speaker — Extender (Pocked in Poirs)
Speaker — Directional (Packed in Poirs)
^0
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
NOTICE
EARLY CLOSING NEXT
WEEK, ALL COPY MUST
BE RECEIVED IN NEW
YORK BY WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 28.
Charley, M^Boy!
The man with the glass of cheer in
his right hand and the glowing Rowe
AMI “Music Merchant” under his left
is Chuck Nye of Tri-City Music, Cali-
fornia. Chuck was the first phono-
graph operator on the West Coast to
have a “Music Merchant” on location,
complete with the dollar bill acceptor.
Lenzer Upped At
Interstate United
LINCOLNWOOD, ILL. — Lester R.
Lenzner has been promoted to as-
sistant to the vice president of opera-
tions, Lorron G. Caryl, for Interstate
United, it was announced today by
Lorron G. Caryl, vice president, opera-
tions, Interstate United.
In his new capacity he will assist
the vice president of operations in all
administrative and operational areas.
Prior to this promotion, Lenzner was
Western Division vending director for
Interstate United in Los Angeles.
Lenzner joined the Chicago-based
food and vending company nine years
ago. Before that he was the Western
Division Sales Supervisor at Cantrell
and Cochrane, Los Angeles.
Walker Reports On
American Tobacco's
Profits For 1966
NEW YORK — Robei-t B. Walker,
president and chairman of the board
of The American Tobacco Company,
termed 1966 “an eventful year for the
Company — not only in sales and earn-
ings progress, but in changes designed
to broaden our capacity for growth.”
“Despite rising costs, we are head-
ing for a successful year, judging by
third-quarter results and projections
for the remainder of 1966,” Mr.
Walker said. Dollar sales and net in-
come for the first nine months were
$1,085,007,000 and $65,595,000, re-
spectively.
The Company’s volume of filter cig-
arette sales showed a noticeable in-
crease for the year while the volume
of nonfilter cigarettes followed a gen-
eral industry decline. In sharp con-
trast to a downward trend of the cigar
industry, American Tobacco’s Cigar
Division, the nation’s third largest
cigar manufacturer, scored impres-
sive gains throughout 1966.
Sunshine Biscuits’ operations, ac-
cording to Walker, “are beginning to
show a favorable trend. We expect
4-P^a^
9 Big-Action Features
Superb light-box animation presents a
• beautiful ballerina dancing on stage
throughout play of game.
n New carousel roto-unit scores up to 500
points on numbered targets and ‘‘shoot
again" feature on star target.
2 Full top to bottom exciting playboard
action.
CT New decagon score-indicating unit gives
ultra-efficient performance
New automatic electric ball-lift for faster
more convenient play.
New, illuminated, score-card holder in-
• eludes new easy-to-read ‘‘Balls to Play"
and “Game Over" lights.
Q New, all-stainless steel front molding, pro-
vides a fresh clean appearance and com
forfable feel.
Q New, triple coin-chute combinations, now
available for increased convenience and
earning power.
Season^s Qreetings
Sunshine to be an important factor
in both our immediate and long-range
growth plans.” Another promising
nontobacco venture was an agreement
signed in December for the purchase
of a majority interest in the James
B. Beam Distilling Co. The Chicago-
based distributor of Jim Beam Ken-
tucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and
other liquor products reported sales
of $100,812,331 and net income of
$7,024,314 for the year ended June
30, 1966.
Walker’s outlook for 1967 is one
of guarded optimism: “While we ex-
pect to benefit from the 2% growth
prediction for the industry, our specu-
lations must take into account the
shifting climates in which the tobacco
industry operates today. We look to-
ward significant improvements in our
profit picture from improved plant
efficiency with resultant reductions in
operating costs. Present diversifica-
tion and the addition of the Beam
Company should enhance return on
investment of the Company’s capital.”
■TAKE ADVANTAGE
ANNUAL JANUARY
OF CLEVELAND COIN MACHINE'S"
SALE FOR IMMEDIATE CLEARANCE
Up to 100 Various
types of
SHUFFLE ALLEYS
At $75 each — in iots
of 5 or more $50
pius an additionai
$15 for crating.
Ciean and in working
order.
5 FLINT STONE
AGE KIDDIE RIDES
$295 each
Beautiful condition
WE NEED
Scoring Glass for
Genco 2 PI. Basket-
ball.
PIN GAMES
Buckaroo. North Star,
Rack-A-Ball, Cara-
velle. World’s Fair,
Kings & Queens,
Bank-A-Ball.
MUSIC
A.M.I. models H-l-J-
K-200 preferably me-
chanicals.
BOWL-A-RAMAS
PIN GAMES
A Go-Go, 4 pi. . . .
Aces High, 4 pi
Bonanza 2 pi.
Bronco 2 pi. .
Bull Fight 1 pi
Eager Beaver 2 pi.
Hula Hula 2 pi
Kicker 1 pi, .
Paradise 2 pi.
Seashore 2 pi.
Slick Chick 1 pi.
Sweetheart 1 pi.
Top Hand 1 pi.
Thorobred 2 pi.
Pot-O-Gold 2 pi.
$595
350
295
225
325
345
395
325
395
315
195
225
345
375
425
MUSIC
Wurlitzer
2500 $450
2600 550
2700 650
2800 750
2900 825
A.M.I.
Lyric $295
Continental 2-200 . 425
J.A.L 475
Tropicana 650
Diplomat 775
ROCK-OLA
1455 $210
1465 265
1475 315
1485 395
1495 465
SEEBURG W
201 $365
222 450
AQ-160 475
AY-160 595
DS-160 645
CC^V^LAND
61
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
ADVERTISING SECTION
, JD AO RATE 20 CENTS PER WORD
clksStFlED ADVERTISING. If cash or check is not enclosed with order
yoHf ad will be held for following issue pending receipt of your check or cosh.
WQTIC^ S’2 Ciassified Advertisers. (Outside USA add $52 to your present subscription
arie«). Tcs: or« entitled to a classified ad of 40 words in each week s issue tor a
aS One Fuii Year 52 consecutive weeks. You are allowed to change your Classified Ad
if you so desire All words over 40 will be billed at the rote of 20c per
^ Pieose count words carefully. Be sure your Classified Ad is sent to f®?®'', New York
psblicetien office by Wednesday, 12 Noon, of preceding week to appear in the follow-
infi week's issue.
CiossifiecS Ads Close WEDNESDAY
S®ft4 ali copy to: CASH BOX, 1780 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y,
RECORD RIOT, 455, BRAND NEW RECORDS.
Some late hits, $6.50 per 100, $65.00 per
1000. All orders shipped irnmediately. bena
check with order for prepaid Postag^ Ordy
in United States. RELIABLE
BOX 136, GLEN OAKS POST OFFICE, GLEN
OAKS, N.Y. 11004 PHONE: (212) 343-5881.
FOR SALE; OFF OUR OWN ROUTES, CLEAN,
mechanically reconditioned, 5 Balls
Along, Flying Chariots, El Toro: 51 /P-
Jumpin Jacks, Gi Gi: 5'
Sunset, Lancer, Tom Tom, $135. Big 0®®j <
Aloha, Flying Circus, Preview, Ro^ck A Ball,
Cover Girl, $125. Foto Finish, Tropic Isle,
$100 00. Atlas, Double Action, Gondolier,
Lite A Card, Melody Lane, 7 Seas, Made-
moiselle, Roto Pool, Miss Annabel e, $75.
STAN HARRIS CO., 508 W. VENANGO ST.,
PHILA., PA. PHONE BA 3-5362.
ATTENTIONI we are THE TRADE S LARGEST
suppliers of Pool Table supplie^ slates,
cues, balls, cloth, etc. Best quality, lowest
Dnces write or phone tor our new catalog
EaItERN N(3VELTY DISTRIBUTORS, 37*
TONNELE AVE., NORTH BERGEN. N. J.
(Tel. UNion 3-8627).
SEEBURG L.P.C. #480, ROCKOLA OI^ND
Prix and many others. Sove Money — Write
rsr Wire vouT needs. Lowest Prices. bbA-
CO/^T DISTRIBUTORS, 1200 NORTH AVE.,
ELIZABETH, N.J. (Tel: Bl 8-3524).
KLOPP COIN COUNTERS WE MANUFACTURE
and sell the finest low priced coin counting-
packaging and coin sorfino machine? avail-
able. Write for ^ofads- KLOeP ENGINEER-
ING, INC. 35561 SCHOOLCRAFT RD. LI-
VONIA, MICHIGAN 48151.
NT
AVAILABLE; COIN MACHINE MECHANIC —
slots, consoles, bingos. 35 years experience.
Sober, finest, relioble. Car, tools, will go
anywhere. PINKY HUGHES, 2517 Mountain
Road, Pasadena, Moryand.
USED SIX-CARD PINBALL MACHINES: .BAR-
rel-O-Fun. Lotto Fun, Shoot-A-Line, Lite-A-
Line, Venus, Super Wildcats. Uprights: Red
Arrow, Flashback, Shawnee & Sweet Shaw-
nee. Write: MONROE D. BRANDT 829
EAST MARKET ST., YORK, PA. PHONE;
755-3129.
LP.'#, CUTOUTS, OVERSTOCKS, CLOSEOUTS
SURPLUS. ANY LABELS. For premiums and
fllveoways. New merchandise only. We pay
cosh. Small or large lots. EMPIRE DIST^B-
UTING CO., 4610 LIBERTY AVE., PITTS-
BURGH 24, PA. (Tel. (412) 682-8437).
WANTED: WILD ARROWS. Write or phpi^:
fSnEST JOHN'S, 2456 LAS VEGAS BLVD.,
SOUTH, LAS VEC^AS, NEVADA, 382-3633.
USED 45 RPM RECORDS, ALL TYPES AS
they run, right off the route. No sorting
or picking, we pay freight from anywhere
in U.S.A. Stonding order available for reg-
ular shippers. JALEN AMUSEMENT CO
1215 S. HOWARD STREET-— BALTIMORE,
MD. 21230.
RECORDS, 45'i AND LP's SURPLUS R^E-
tumt, overstock cut-outs, etc. HARRY
WARfelNER KNICKERBOCKER MUSIC CO.
— 453 McLEAN AVE., YONKERS, N.Y. (Tel.
GReenleaf. 6-7778).
NEW 45 RPM RECORDS. NO QUANTITY TOO
large or small. We pay the highest price,
plus all freight. Also over-run return hit
records. Coritact immediately for quick
tronsactlon. We pay cosh. SUTTON RECORD
CO. — 26 West 20th ST. — New York, N.Y.
(Tel. CH 2-3250).
USED 45 RPM RECORDS. WE PAY freight &
top prices. KING SALES— 1415 WASHING-
TON STREET— BOSTON, MASS.
45 RPM RECORDS, NEW. NO QUANTITY TOO
large or smoll. Highest prices paid. Write
stating quantity on bond. TONY GALGANO
DIST. CO.,,^ 4135 W. ARMITAGE, CHICAGO
39, ILL (Tel. Dickens 2-7060).
WANT MIDWAY RED BALL IF YOU HAVE
one or fifty w# con use them. (Unshopped).
We pay cosh. AMERICAN MUSIC CO., 219
—1st AVE. SOUTH, GREAT FALLS, MON-
TANA. PHONE 452-7301 or 454-1100.
WANT: RECORDS, 45's, USED OR NEW. ALSO
LP stocks, ony quantity. Will buy on steady
b«ls. BEACON RECORD DISTRIBUTOR^
725 BRANCH AVENUE, PROVIDENCE, R.l.
02904. PHONE: UN-1-7500 or JA-1-5121.
WE WANT TO BUY: WILLIAMS CRAN^,
Chicogo-Coin Steam Shovels. Co'h. TRl
STATE trading CO., BOX 272. MILES
CITY, MONTANA.
RECORD COMPANIES— WANT ACTION Dis-
tribution & Promotion. Send your latest re-
ieoses to us, we'll do the rest! JODY REC-
ORD DISTRIBUTING CO. 2226 MC DON-
ALD AVE., BROOKLYN, N.Y. ES30202.
WE WANT SIX-CARD MACHINES: LOTTA
Fun, Barrel-O-Fun, Shoot-A-Line, Lite-A-
Line, Venus. AMERICAN MUSIC MACHINE
VENDING, 57 S. PENN, YORK, PA. PHONE:
843-6201.
WANT TO BUY USED AND NEW PINBALL
GAMES ADDABALL one & two players every
kind of models MFD 1964, 1965, 1966 and
also guns, bowlers, arcade, make offer to
Roberto Mauro, ELECTROPHON, VIA MEL-
CHIORRE GIOIA 41a, MILANO (ITALY).
WANTED: DAVAL FREE PLAY COUNTER
Games, also 14 Counter Daval, Spark, Mer-
cury, Ginger. Cig. machines in good condi-
tion. Please state best cash price ond
number you have to ship or pick up. CEN-
TRAL MUSIC CO., 407 EAST AVE. D, P. 0.
BOX 284, KILLEEN, TEXAS.
WANTED— BOWL-A-RAMAS, PARTS & EX-
TENSlOt'lS; A.M.i. models l-J-K-200 selection,
mechanicoi and electrical; PONY EXPRESS
GUNS 8* PLAYLAND GUNS; AUTO PHOTOS
#12; ALL TYPES OF ADD-A-BALLS.
Ctr'/ELA.NO COIN INTERNATIONAL, 2029
Pwspici, Cleveland, Ohio, Tel. 216-861-671 5.
WAbm SERVICEMA.N FOR SEEBURGS, POOL
tobte and pins. Write Louco Amusements
Ceeinfvsn- 2514 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic
City, N.J, 08401
PENNSYLVANIA OPERATORS
c".. L-. ra Funs, Barrels Of Funs, Shoot
..ite A Lines, Venus's, El Ranchos,
■ cm, And Up Rights. Will Pick Up.
L. A p, MUSIC, 27 E. PHILADELPHIA
irpsrr. YORK, PA. PHONE 848-1846.
PHL. DASfE.
WANTED— YOUR USED 45 RPM RECORDS.
We pay freight and up to 13*. REC-O-RAC
942 DEODAR. ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA.
(TEL. 714-745-5942).
WANT— BASEBALLS, POOL TABLES, SHUF-
fleboard Scoring Units, Shuffleboards with
anti-cheats. Guns, Bear Guns, Coon Hunts,
Arcade Equipment, Personal Music. Write
stating make, model, condition and best
cash price. ST. THOMAS COIN SALES, 669
TALBOT ST., ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO, CAN-
ADA. Areo 519-631-9550.
SELL YOUR SURPLUS 45'S TO THE NATION'S
largest user. We are the nation's foremost
packager of promotionally priced record
packs. We purchase unlimited quantities on
o steady basis. Wire — phone for quick deol.
NATIONAL BAG-O-TUNES, P.O. BOX 569,
1217-19-21 SIMPSON AVENUE, OCEAN
CITY, NEW JERSEY 08226.
WANT: TWO TOP NOTCH SERVICEMEN FOR
route work on bingos and jukeboxes. These
openings are due to expansion. Good work-
ing conditions with well established company.
This job is permanent and salary to com-
mensurate with ability. Cole Henry, Star
Amusement Co., 136 State Street, West
Columbio, South Carolina. Tel.: 256-1429.
WANT; NEW OR USED 45 RPM SINGLE NOT
over 6 months old. We pay 1 1 4 each ond
the freight and we can use 200 of one
number. Phone: 312-344-3300. CHAS.
ALZNER, 508 Washington Blvd., Maywood,
llinois.
WANTED — 10 WILLIAMS 4-PLAYER MARDI
Gras. Write or coll Heath Soles Company,
655 Second Street, Macon, Georgia.
GERMAN FOOSBALLS, FORRESTER ONL'iL
New or if used, describe condition. BUDGE
WRIGHT'S WESTERN DISTRIBUTORS, 1226
SW 16th AVE., PORTLAND, OREGON.
DESIRE DISTRIBUTOR OR LARGE RECORD RE-
toiler from Montreal or Toronto to purchase
Canadian-mode hi-line LP's. All cream and
chart music. Unlimited supply — stereo or
mono. $1 .85 each. Strict confidence, cosh
only. Write to Box 770 c/o Cosh Box, 1780
B'way, N.Y. N.Y. 10019.
WANTED TO BUY: ROCK-OLA 1558 (160
Selection) Wall Boxes. Write or call Bird
Music Distributors, Inc., 124-126 Poyntz
Avenue, Monhotton, Kansos. Area Code
913-Prescott 8-5229.
FOR SALE
ADD-A-BALLS — Wing Ding $225; Swing Time
$150; Vagobond $125; Bowl-A-Strike $350;
Polooka $75; Flipper $75; Flipper Parade
$75; Square Head $150; Flipper Clown
$100. Completely shopped — Ready for lo-
cotion. Sutherland Distributing Compony,
705 N.W. 4th, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Phone (405) CE 6-3691.
"ATTENTION OPERATORS, DISTRIBUTORS —
New, proven. Personal Stereo-Coin Minute-
Music Systems moke twice the money, cost
only holf as much as ordinary Juke-Box.
Locations easier. Servicing No Problem.
Personal Music. Kirk International Music
Division, PO Box 7633-Orlando, Florida."
WM's WORLD SERIES $275.00. CHICO TRI-
umph shuffle $395.00. Wurl. 5210 w/b's
$29.50. Seeb. OWI's $14.00. Cent. Corsair
30 col. cig. $200.00. Gott. Texan 4 pi. FP
$150.00. Captl. Drive in sound Movie Cor
$100.00. GRECO BROS. AMUSEMENT CO.,
1288 B'WAY, ALBANY, N.Y. PHONE:
HO-5-0228.
UPRIGHTS, BINGOS, ONE-BALLS: TWIN
WILD CAT, TWIN RED ARROW, TWIN
TIM BUC TOO. All Bingos— ALL BINGOS —
TURF KINGS, ONE BALLS AND CLAW
MACHINES. NEW ALL ELECTRIC HOPPER
PAYOUT FRUIT (SLOT) MACHINES. Write:
CROSS-DUNHAM & CO., 255 Wright Ave.
"F", Greotno, La. Tel 367-4365.
ACE LOCKS KEYED ALIKE. SEND LOCKS AND
the key you want them mastered to. $1.00
each less 10% lots of 50 or more. RANDEL
LOCK SERVICE, 61 ROCKAWAY AVENUE,
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. 1 1580. TEL: 516-
VA5-6216. Our 35th year in vending.
ATTENTION OPS! GET LOWDOWN PRICES
on all billiard supplies coin machine ports,
accessories, etc. DIAMOND COIN MACHINE
EXCHANGE, 609 WOODIS AVE., NORFOLK,
VIRGINIA. (Tel. 625-1716).
WE HAVE A CHOICE SELECTION OF LATE
Williams Two Players. Write for prices MID-
WEST DIST,, 709 LINWOOD BLVD.— KAN-
SAS CITY, MO.
POKERINO, RECONDITIONED, REFINISHED
in Blond Birch, with new drop enute, points,
sockets, wire, knock off, trim, bock-glass,
ploytield decals. Write tor details. New
socket and point drop board wired tor your
games. JAMES TRAVIS — P.O. BOX 206
MILLVILLE, N.J. 08332
FOR SALE; COMPLETELY RECONDITIONED—
2410-$375.00; 2400-$395.00; 251 0-$445.00;
2500-$495.00; 2600-$545.00; 2700-$625.00;
2800-$695.00. Northwest Sales Co. of Ore-
gon, 1040 S. W. 2nd. Ave., Portland,
Oregon 97204. Phone 503-228-6557.
FIVE-BALL GAMES, CLEAN, READY FOR Lo-
cation. Gott. Preview 2 PI. $150.00, Gott.
Texan 4 PI. $95.00, Gott. Aloha 2 PI.
$150.00, Gott. Lancer 2 PI., $150.00,
Williams Music Man 4 PI. $75.00, Williams
Valiant 2 PI. $135.00. Terms 1/3 deposit,
bol. sight draft C.O.D. TRI-STATE DIS-
TRIBUTING COMPANY, P.O. BOX 615,
CALLIER SPRINGS ROAD, ROME, GEORGIA.
PHONE; 404-234-7123.
FOR SALE— DOWNEY-JOHNSON COIN COUN-
ter with 1-5-10-25-50 cent coin tubes....
Slick Chick Tropic Isle . . . Want — Seeburq
201 DH phono. NOBRO NOVELTY CO., 142
DORE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.,
PH. 415 621-5438
IF IT'S PANORAM PARTS YOU WANT
PHIL GOULD HAS 'EM. ALL TYPES OF
FILMS FOR Panorom Peeks. PHIL GOULD
—224 market ST.— NEWARK, N.J. (Tel
201-MArkef 4-3297).
WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF USED
pingomes, bowlers, arcade equipment, verid-
ing and phonographs. Direct overseas ship-
ment from Port of Detroit. MARTIN AND
SNYDER COMPANY, 13200 W. WARREN
DEARBORN,. MICHIGAN 48126 PHONE
LU 2-2300.
FOR SALE — WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE
of coin counters, (new or used) coin sorters,
coin changers, coin wrappers, parts and
supplies. Globe Distributing Co., Inc., 233C
N Western Ave., Chicago 47, III. AR
6-0780.
NEW — WHOLESALE PRICES TO OPERATORS
purchasing new coin operated "Kindertainer"
amusement rides for leosing or resale.
United Tool & Engineering Co. mfr., 9970
Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215.
Phone 513-771-3790.
SOUTHLAND ENGINEERING'S NEW IMPROVED
model "Time Trials" in original cartons
$495. IMPERIAL COIN MACHINE EX-
CHANGE INC. — 498 ANDERSON AVENUE.
ri icccinc papic N I
SEEBURG: LPC-1 $825.00, LPC-480 $925.00,
222HR $450.00, HFIOOR restyled $275.00,
lOOJ $295.00. Shopped and painted, ready
for location. WILLIAMS: All 1966, Eight
Ball $450.00, Full House $350.00, Pitch
& Bat baseball $525.00. Call or write.
Operators Sales, Inc., 4122 Washington Ave.,
s. ■ ^ I t
FOR SALE: BALLY SPECIALS BOUNTYS $495;
Silver Sails $450; Golden Gates $450; Lidos
$395; Roller Derbys $350: Border Beautys
and up, write. Cleaned & Shopped. Call
Nastasi Distributing Company, 826 Beronne
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70113,
Phones (523-6386) (523-1471) .... NOW!
FOR SALE— RELAXALATORS: JUST OFF Lo-
cation, almost like
MIKE MUNVES CORP., 577 10 AVE., NEW
YORK NY 10036.
FOR SALE: TEN 22-COLUMN NATIONAL CIO
arette Vendors. Clean and completa,
$265.00 ea. Write, Wire or call. First Coma,
First served. Money Order d^oMt rec^lred.
R F JONES CO 375 SOUTH 2ND WEST,
SALT l5kE city, UTAH. (AREA 801). 359-
FOR SALE: 25 ASSORTED N^
$15.00. Our Choice Guoronteed New 33 l/J
RPM LP Albums — Mailed Insured— Post-
paid— Limited Sale Offer Good Only in
USA. Send Check or Money Or(^r--No
COD'S. UNCLE JIM O'NEAL— BOX A—
ARCADIA, CALIF. 91006.
OLDIES CATALOGUE — 45 PAGES — 2,000
titles with dotes — A must for dealers, dee-
jays, distributors. Somple,
$100. RECORD rendezvous, 1004 PACI-
FIC AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JER-
SEY 08401.
FOR SALE: SLOT MACH. ROUTE, LAS VEGAS,
Nevada. All gobbling licenses inc^d^. Or
will consider partner. BARRE^ COIN MACH.
CO., 2329 ALTA DR., LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.
FOR SALE: COMPLETELY RECONDI^TIONED:
Wurlitzer 2800-7 $595; 2810-3 $545,
Rock-Ola 1478 $245; 414 $445; AMI J120E
$195; Bally Mad World $245; ^Id Rush
$345; United Line-Up Shuffle $95,- Sure
Fire Shuffle $95. MICKEY ANDERSON
AMUSEMENT CO., 314 EAST IITH STREET,
ERIE, PA. PHONE: 452-3207.
for SALE: CLEAN GAMES READY TO OPER-
ote. Soccer $175, Bowling
Bank-A-Ball $325, Full Hou^ $350, Swing-
A-Long $175, Flying Circus $125, Beat The
Clock $175. World Foir $’75 Goucho $200
Liberty Belf 150, Tom Tom $1 50, Skill Pool
$150, North Star $275, Sky Line $275.
Write or coll D. & P. MUSIC, 27 PFIl^"
DELPHIA ST., YORK, PA. PHONE: 848-1846
FOR SALE; BALLY 2NL $225.; GRAND TOUR
$195., Gottlieb: Slick Chick $115., Corral
$110., Preview $250., Flipper Foir $j0p.,
Keeney: Arrowhead $250., Wms Major
League Boseball $250., Midway
ing Gallery $250., Arizono Gun $250. D &
L Coin Machine Co., 414 Kelker St., Harris-
burg, Pa. Phone: 234-1051.
FOR SALE — PRICE REDUCED — PHONE; —
Wurlitzer 3010 — 2910 — 2810 — ^10,
Chicago Coin Supersonic; Knowledge Com-
puter; NEW Chicago Coin Par Golf. REDD
DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, INC., 672 Mom
Street, Hyonnis, Massachusetts 02601 Tel.
FOR SALE; MAYFAIR $385.00; A GO GO
$525.00; Pretty Baby $275.00; Six Sticks
$425.00; Fun Cruise $340.00; Gold Rush
$290.00; Kicker $310.00; Little League
$300.00. Also Beach Beauty, Border Beauty,
Silver Sails, Golden Gate, Con Con, Lido
and others. New Orleans Novelty Company,
1055 Dryodes Street, New Orleans, Lo.
70113 529-7321, Coble: NONOVCO.
FOR SALE. UNITED SHUFFLES; CREST $275;
Ultra $295; Mambo $495. MOHAWK SKILL
GAMES CO., 67 SWAGGERTOWN ROAD,
SCOTIA, N.Y. 12302.
M ISC.
HI-SPEED, SUPER FAST SHUFFLE BOARD WAX.
24 one-pound cans per case. $8.50 f.o.b.
Dallas, Texas. Sold on money bock guaran-
tee Distributor for D. Gottlieb, ChiCoin.
STATE MUSIC DISTRIBUTORS INC., 3100
MAIN ST., DALLAS, TEXAS.
FOR SALE: JENNINGS AND MILLS FRUIT
machines slot machines for export. Also
complete stock of fruit machine ports. Call
or write Nevada Fruit (Slot) Machine Co.,
P.O. Box 5734, Reno, Nevado.
RECORD BONANZA 45'S, BRAND NEW. Ex-
cellent assortment, late hits, oldies, DJ's
$6.60 per hundred; $56 per thousand, post
paid. J.M.B. RECORDS, P.O. BOX 2902,
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19126 (215) WA
7-0253.
BEAR GUN, NOT QUITE COMPLETE $39.50.
Please Write Budge Wright's Western Dis-
tributors, 1226 SW 16th Ave., Portland,
Oregon.
NEW FOR DEEJAYS! SIX VOLUME LIBRARY
of 6,000 riotous classified one-liners, $5.00
Copy of comedy monthly free with order!
"Comedy Spectacular", giant lough sampler
of one-liners, breaks, etc., $2.00, Catalog
free. EDWARD ORRIN, 8034 GENTRY, NO
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 91605.
30,000 PROFESSIONAL COMEDY LINES!
Largest laugh library in show business.
ForW books of classified moterial, plus Or-
ben's Current Comedy the newsmaking
topical gog service featuring hip dee-
jay lines in each issue. Great somple
selection, $5.00. Catalog free. ORBEN
DEEJAY LAUGHS, 3536 Daniel Crescent.
Baldwin Harbor, N.Y. 11510
WANTED: DEALERS FOR INSTANT CAMPER
Stotion Mgrs. announcers we will pay up to
$5.00 per response. Instant Campers Cus-
tom built to fit most Vehicles. Write IN-
STANT CAMPER, 2145 HOLLYWOOD WAY,
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA.
62
Cash Box — December 31, 1966
And Now A Word To All Contented Cats . . . .
Purrrrrrr.
It’s a good feeling to have, contentment. Business going strong, sales steady
or climbing, fewer service calls, satisfied customers, new markets opening. . . .
It’s also good to have a friend, someone who knows and cares about coin ma-
chines, the industry, and its people.
That’s where Cash Box comes in. Rain or Shine.
So the next time you feel in need of a friend, call us.
We’ll be home.
In Gash Box • •
That Counts^
I
3
n
O
n
Ui
u
-<
00
I
KJ
<J)
hJ
O
Q cn
n Q
!L
—1
3-
m
3"
5- 3
0
n
0
“D
3 rt
“D
0
m
0
*<
-K Q
0 Q.
0
— +%
0
r\
0
3 ^
0
3*
n
Q
"O
0 0
= 0
6
0
0
■D
0
0 —
0 Q
"D
0
"i
3
0
Q
^ i=
0
•D •
Q
0
CL
3’
Q
1
Q 2?
•< X
Q
3
0
3
0
p”
° 2
c
iA
0
0
° 5-
s- i
3
0
a.
3
"D “O "D "D -O
^ TO ^ ^ 70
00090 z
<J1 CO N> — ■ [/5
^0000
:; 3 3 D 3
o ^ ^l> ^ o
^ "D “D “O "D
"5. 5’ S* o' 5*
n ct n ct
r\ O O O O
O i/t (/t iA VI
i£_ Q Q Q Q
2. 5" o
o
n
O
2
6
■o
m
70
i-
TJ
o
o
— O -O 00 vj ^
to CO O' CO ^
X X X X X ®
00
0'0i0i0ii>'
00 CO O O'
m
in
o
■B
<e o
•a r\
o <e
a
05 ">
■o ^ u
•< ^
2 ®
^ O Q.
s
7
s I
"o 3
•<
3" «
m 3
•
•
•
0
CO
fi -n
« 3-
0 2 0
/-N
0^
■0
0
0 0
0 g
00 (s =:
> ? 5
xE*"
3*
6
"O
0
0
0
3
0
0 *<
0 iA*
O-
— 4* a.
fi
0
fi.
fH"
0
C/)
O
3
Q.
Q.
Q
3
fi iA
3 ^
Q.
5 s
S’ ^
s «>
o* —
3 O
v) (fi
fi
^ o
nt
<
0
3
0
3
c
C/)
^ «
O
O
"O
0
3
(fi
0
3
0
9: "
=*
CD qT
C/^
s s s
000
a. a. a.
0 0
o ^
V) ^ M
O* ^ ^
X X
S 2: 01
3 O CO
® ■O.'O,
a S 0*
W»
^00
fi
^ iA iA
S s a
0 0 0
• •
K»
O ^
tA <
A
2.
3*
fi
*<
5
‘Top Performers” at Locations Everywhere
U»S» Coin-A'Copy Convertible Time Pool